Title: 2FA
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# 2FA

 *  [Pringle Stik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pringle-stik/)
 * (@pringle-stik)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/2fa/)
 * Is there any sort of plugin or a beta for 2FA without having to try and find 
   a phone that will work in my isolation. I just want our Administrators to login
   with some sort of key fob, or as they were once known as dongles. That gives 
   my age away !!!
 * We have three administrators. Two of them might as well be in outer space as 
   they can only get a landline to work if there is a following wind and a long 
   prayer!
 * From what I can see unless if you are a large corporation you will have oodles
   of Wonga to spend on a project. We are just a small association and only get 
   2FA for three or maybe four administrators. We just don’t have that sort of capital.
 * If no one can help I guess we will eventually be departing the realms of WordPress
   which I do not want to do
 * _[ Signature moderated ]_

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 *  Moderator [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/)
 * (@jdembowski)
 * Forum Moderator and Brute Squad
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/2fa/#post-6887613)
 * > I just want our Administrators to login with some sort of key fob, or as they
   > were once known as dongles. That gives my age away !!!
 * Which ones are you looking for support? RSA SecurID or something else like HID?
   I’m asking because there may be a 2FA that you can use if you already have the
   infrastructure.
 *  Thread Starter [Pringle Stik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pringle-stik/)
 * (@pringle-stik)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/2fa/#post-6887778)
 * I am at the first stage of trying to get 2FA so have nothing installed. I don’t
   want to use Smart phones to generate the key. Everything I have read about talks
   of using Google or similar to generate the key. I just want a simple dongle to
   do the job. I understand the key is generated by passing the exact time through
   an algorithm to give the key which is automatically inserted. I have not found
   a WordPress plugin that works this way. A shame really, as the dongles are available
   that will do exactly what I want.
    I would appreciate your help an hope you can
   point me in the right direction. Regards Pringle Stik (David)
 *  Moderator [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/)
 * (@jdembowski)
 * Forum Moderator and Brute Squad
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/2fa/#post-6887786)
 * > I am at the first stage of trying to get 2FA so have nothing installed.
 * Ah. I was hoping you’d had an existing 2FA setup already that you’d like to take
   advantage off. For example, at work we use RSA SecurID tokens that display a 
   time based number using a secret seed and has a RADIUS interface.
 * >  I don’t want to use Smart phones to generate the key.
 * That’s kind of a problem. The infrastructure to manage and maintain your own 
   key fob (dongle) is prohibitively expensive. As someone who uses a 2FA dongle
   everyday I appreciate what you are trying to do. 😉
 * The best I can suggest is that you try this plugin search.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/search.php?q=2fa](https://wordpress.org/plugins/search.php?q=2fa)
   
   [https://wordpress.org/plugins/search.php?q=OTP](https://wordpress.org/plugins/search.php?q=OTP)
 * In the absence of having someway to add the second factor (a dongle or key fob)
   you may need to use a phone. For my personal site I use Google Authenticator 
   and an app on my smartphone. It’s time based and does not require any network
   connectivity on my phone and it works well. My smartphone is the dongle for me.
 * _But_ you’ve made it clear you do not want to go that route. The first search
   uses plugins that support SMS as a means of sending the user a code required 
   to complete the loigin process.
 * The second search is for using one time passwords. It’s not a dongle but can 
   partly fil that need. Personally I think the SMS option is better but your mileage
   may vary. 😉
 *  Thread Starter [Pringle Stik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pringle-stik/)
 * (@pringle-stik)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/2fa/#post-6887790)
 * The problem is my Mobile is very erratic where live and work. I can get Yubikeys
   locally no problem but I have only found two plugins that are supposed to work
   with them. When I dig deeper I find very few have uploaded the plugin and the
   last update is months or years away. Not exactly a five star recommendation. 
   I have Wordfence but that only seems to work with telephones. I doubt I will 
   get what I want and what I do finally get will have be a compromise not what 
   I am about!
    Thanks for you help David

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