Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) on Windows VPN (PPTP)

Enable Two-Factor Authentication (2FA)/MFA for Windows VPN Client to extend security level.

1. Add the Radius Client in miniOrange

Login into miniOrange Admin Console.
Click on Customization in the left menu of the dashboard.
In Basic Settings, set the Organization Name as the custom_domain name.
Click Save. Once that is set, the branded login URL would be of the format https://<custom_domain>.xecurify.com/moas/login

2FA Two-Factor authentication for Windows VPN : setting up branding

Go to Apps Click on Add Application button.

Choose RADIUS as Application type and click on Create App button.

2FA Two-Factor authentication for Windows VPN : Create Radius Application

Click on Windows VPN application tab. If you don't find your application click on Radius Client application tab.

2FA Two-Factor radauthentication for Windows VPN : Select your Radius Client

Configure the below details to add Radius Client.

Client Name:	Any name for your reference.
Client IP:	IP address of VPN server which will send Radius authentication request.
Shared Secret:	Security key. For Eg. "sharedsecret" (Keep this with you, you will need to configure same on VPN Server).

Click Next.
Under the Attribute Mappings tab, enable the toggle if you want to Send Groups in response and then click Next

You can refer the table below for Vendor group attributes id.

Vendor Name	Group Attribute	Vendor ID	Vendor Attribute ID
Cisco ASA VPN	26 Vendor-Specific	3076	25
Fortinet VPN	26 Vendor-Specific	12356	1
Palo Alto VPN	26 Vendor-Specific	25461	5
SonicWall VPN	26 Vendor-Specific	8741	3
Citrix VPN	26 Vendor-Specific	66	16

Configure the following Policy details for the Radius Client.

Group Name:	Group for which the policy will apply.
Policy Name:	Any Identifier that specifies policy name.
Login Method	Login Method for the users associated with this policy.
Enable 2-Factor Authentication	Enables Second Factor during Login for users associated with this policy.
Enable Adaptive Authentication	Enables Adaptive Authentication for Login of users associated with this policy.

After configuring the given above details, Click on Save button.
Copy and save the Radius server IPs which will be required to configure your Radius client.

MFA 2FA two-factor authentication for Windows VPN: RADIUS Server IPs

NOTE:

On-Premise

Only For On-Premise Version

Open Firewall Ports.

In order to receive the RADIUS request, it is necessary to open UDP traffic on ports 1812 and 1813 for the machine where On-Premise IdP is deployed.
If the hosting machine is a Windows Machine then you can follow this document.
If the hosting machine is a Linux Machine then you can follow this document.

NOTE:

Step 2: Install Routing and Remote Access Services

Login to your server through Remote Desktop in which you want to install VPN.
Open Server Manager and click on Add roles and features.

2FA Two-Factor Authentication for Windows VPN : Add Roles and Features

Follow the steps for the installation wizard. Select Role-based or feature-based installation Installation Type.

2FA Two-Factor Authentication for Windows VPN : Role Based and feature based installation

In server selection field, check Select a server from the server pool. You will see your server with computer name in server pool.

2FA Two-Factor Authentication for Windows VPN : Select Server

Select Remote Access role in Server roles and click on Next.

2FA Two-Factor Authentication for Windows VPN : Remote Access

In Role services, select DirectAccess and VPN and click on Next.

2FA Two-Factor Authentication for Windows VPN : DirectAccess and VPN

Review installation page and click on install once you are ready. Once the installation is completed, click Open the Getting Started Wizard.

2FA Two-Factor Authentication for Windows VPN : Start Wizard.

You will see ‘Configure Remote Access‘ wizard. Click on Deploy VPN only.

2FA Two-Factor Authentication for Windows VPN : Deploy VPN

Step 3: Configure RADIUS in RRAS

You will see Routing and Remote Access MMC. Right click on your server name and click on Configure and Enable Routing and Remote Access.

2FA Two-Factor Authentication for Windows VPN : Configure and Enable Routing and Remote Access

Now, follow the installation wizard instruction. Click Next on Welcome wizard.

2FA Two-Factor Authentication for Windows VPN : Welcome wizard

In configuration wizard, select Custom Configuration and click on Next.

2FA Two-Factor Authentication for Windows VPN : Custom Configuration

Check the VPN access checkbox.

2FA Two-Factor Authentication for Windows VPN : VPN access

Click Finish and start the service.

2FA Two-Factor Authentication for Windows VPN : start service

After the service is started properly.Right click on your server name and click on Properties.

2FA Two-Factor Authentication for Windows VPN : Server Properties

Go to the Security tab and Select Radius Authentication in Authentication Provider drop down.

2FA Two-Factor Authentication for Windows VPN : Radius Authentication

Click on Configure button and Configure the radius server by adding radius server ip and shared secret.

2FA Two-Factor Authentication for Windows VPN : Add radius server ip and shared secret

Hostname or IP Address:	For on-premise version: IP of server where IDP(miniOrange) is installed For cloud version: Contact us at info@xecurify.com to get the IP

Now click on Authentication Methods button and Select Unencrypted Password(PAP) in Authentication Methods.

2FA Two-Factor Authentication for Windows VPN : Select Unencrypted Password(PAP)

Select None in the Accounting Provider dropdown.

2FA Two-Factor Authentication for Windows VPN : Accounting Provider

Goto IPv4 tab, check Static Address pool and Add an ip address range.

2FA Two-Factor Authentication for Windows VPN : Add an ip address range

If you specifically want to add L2TP VPN client, then check Allow custom IPSec policy for L2TP/IKEv2 and add a Pre Shared key which will be used while adding vpn client.

2FA Two-Factor Authentication for Windows VPN : Allow custom IPSec policy for L2TP/IKEv2

Click on OK.
NOTE: Make sure the below ports are opened for specific VPN clients on the server where RRAS is installed.

For PPTP	1723 TCP and GRE 47
For L2TP/IKEv2	1701 UDP
For SSTP	443 TCP
For Radius	1812 and 1813 UDP

Step 4: Setting up Windows VPN client

In your client PC, Go to Settings >> VPN >> Add new VPN connection.

2FA Two-Factor Authentication for Windows VPN : Add new VPN connection

Select Windows(Built-in) in VPN Provider.

2FA Two-Factor Authentication for Windows VPN : Select Windows(Built-in)

Enter a Connection name.

2FA Two-Factor Authentication for Windows VPN : Enter a Connection name.

Input the Server Address. It would be the address of Server where RRAS is installed.

2FA Two-Factor Authentication for Windows VPN : Input the Server Address

Select VPN Type according to your requirement.

2FA Two-Factor Authentication for Windows VPN : Select VPN Type

Click on Save.
Go to the Network and sharing center in the Control Panel.
Click on Change Adapter setting and locate the recently added VPN connection.

2FA Two-Factor Authentication for Windows VPN : Change Adapter setting

Right click and go to Properties.

2FA Two-Factor Authentication for Windows VPN : go to Properties

Under the Security tab, in Authentication section, select Unencrypted Password(PAP) protocol.

2FA Two-Factor Authentication for Windows VPN : Select Unencrypted Password(PAP) protocol

For L2TP: Click on the Advanced Settings button.

2FA Two-Factor Authentication for Windows VPN : Advanced Settings

Enter the Preshared Key which was configured in RRAS for L2TP.

2FA Two-Factor Authentication for Windows VPN : Enter the Preshared Key

Click on the OK button.

5. Configure Your User Directory (Optional)

miniOrange provides user authentication from various external sources, which can be Directories (like ADFS, Microsoft Active Directory, Azure AD, OpenLDAP, Google, AWS Cognito etc), Identity Providers (like Okta, Shibboleth, Ping, OneLogin, KeyCloak), Databases (like MySQL, Maria DB, PostgreSQL) and many more. You can configure your existing directory/user store or add users in miniOrange.

Setup AD/LDAP as User Directory
Setup miniOrange as User Directory

Configure your existing directories such as Microsoft Active Directory, Azure, OpenLDAP, etc.

Click on External Directories >> Add Directory in the left menu of the dashboard.

Select Directory type as AD/LDAP.

STORE LDAP CONFIGURATION IN MINIORANGE: Choose this option if you want to keep your configuration in miniOrange. If active directory is behind a firewall, you will need to open the firewall to allow incoming requests to your AD.
STORE LDAP CONFIGURATION ON PREMISE: Choose this option if you want to keep your configuration in your premise and only allow access to AD inside premises. You will have to download and install miniOrange gateway in your premise.

Two-Factor Authentication : Select ad/ldap user store type

Enter LDAP Display Name and LDAP Identifier name.
Select Directory Type as Active Directory.
Enter the LDAP Server URL or IP Address against LDAP Server URL field.
Click on Test Connection button to verify if you have made a successful connection with your LDAP server.

MFA/2FA: Configure LDAP server URL Connection

In Active Directory, go to the properties of user containers/OU's and search for Distinguished Name attribute.

MFA: Configure user bind account domain name

Enter the valid Bind account Password.
Click on Test Bind Account Credentials button to verify your LDAP Bind credentials for LDAP connection.

Search Base is the location in the directory where the search for a user begins. You will get this from the same place you got your Distinguished name.

Select a suitable Search filter from the drop down menu. To use custom Search Filter select "Write your Custom Filter" option and customize it accordingly.

You can also configure following options while setting up AD. Enable Activate LDAP in order to authenticate users from AD/LDAP. Click on the Save button to add user store.

Here's the list of the attributes and what it does when we enable it. You can enable/disable accordingly.

Attribute	Description
Activate LDAP	All user authentications will be done with LDAP credentials if you Activate it
Sync users in miniOrange	Users will be created in miniOrange after authentication with LDAP
Fallback Authentication	If LDAP credentials fail then user will be authenticated through miniOrange
Allow users to change password	This allows your users to change their password. It updates the new credentials in your LDAP server
Enable administrator login	On enabling this, your miniOrange Administrator login authenticates using your LDAP server
Show IdP to users	If you enable this option, this IdP will be visible to users
Send Configured Attributes	If you enable this option, then only the attributes configured below will be sent in attributes at the time of login

Click on Save. After this, it will show you the list of User stores. Click on Test Connection to check whether you have enter valid details. For that, it will ask for username and password.

On Successful connection with LDAP Server, a success message is shown.
Click on Test Attribute Mapping.

Enter a valid Username. Then, click on Test. Mapped Attributes corresponding to the user are fetched.

After successful Attribute Mapping Configuration, go back to the ldap configuration and enable Activate LDAP in order to authenticate users from AD/LDAP.

Refer our guide to setup LDAPS on windows server.

User Import and Provisioning from AD

Note: Below steps are used to enable one time or manual sync. To enable sync on scheduled basis, you should use LDAP gateway module. Read more and download the LDAP gateway module.

Go to Settings >> Product Settings in the Customer Admin Account.

MFA/Two-Factor Authentication(2FA) for Windows VPN miniOrange dashboard

Enable the "Enable User Auto Registration" option and click Save.

MFA/Two-Factor Authentication(2FA) for Windows VPN Enable User Auto Registration

(Optional) To send a welcome email to all the end users that will be imported, enable the "Enable sending Welcome Emails after user registration" option and click Save.

MFA/Two-Factor Authentication(2FA) for Windows VPN Enable sending Welcome Emails after user registration

From the Left-Side menu of the dashboard select Provisioning.

MFA/Two-Factor Authentication(2FA) for Windows VPN User Sync/Provisioning

In Setup Provisioning tab select Active Directory in the Select Application Drop Down.
Toggle the Import Users tab, click on Save button.

MFA/Two-Factor Authentication(2FA) for Windows VPN User Sync Active Directory Configuration

On the same section, switch to Import Users section.
Select Active Directory from the dropdown and click on the Import Users tab, to import all the users from Active Directory to miniOrange.

MFA/Two-Factor Authentication(2FA) for Windows VPN User Sync Import Operation

You can view all the Users you have imports by selecting Users >> User List from Left Panel.

MFA/Two-Factor Authentication(2FA) for Windows VPN User List

All the imported users will be auto registered.
These groups will be helpful in adding multiple 2FA policies on the applications.

To add your users in miniOrange there are 2 ways:

1. Create User in miniOrange

2. Bulk Upload Users

1. Create User in miniOrange

Click on Users >> User List >> Add User.

Here, fill the user details without the password and then click on the Create User button.

After successful user creation a notification message "An end user is added successfully" will be displayed at the top of the dashboard.

Two-Factor Authentication: Add user details

Click on On Boarding Status tab. Check the email, with the registered e-mail id and select action Send Activation Mail with Password Reset Link from Select Action dropdown list and then click on Apply button.

Now, Open your email id. Open the mail you get from miniOrange and then click on the link to set your account password.
On the next screen, enter the password and confirm password and then click on the Single Sign-On (SSO) reset password button.

Multi-Factor Authentication: Reset user password

Now, you can log in into miniOrange account by entering your credentials.

2. Bulk Upload Users in miniOrange via Uploading CSV File.

Navigate to Users >> User List. Click on Add User button.

In Bulk User Registration Download sample csv format from our console and edit this csv file according to the instructions.

Two-Factor authentication: Download sample csv file

To bulk upload users, choose the file make sure it is in comma separated .csv file format then click on Upload.

After uploading the csv file successfully, you will see a success message with a link.
Click on that link you will see list of users to send activation mail. Select users to send activation mail and click on Send Activation Mail. An activation mail will be sent to the selected users.

This step involves Importing the user group from the Active Directory and Provisioning them.
Go to Provisioning. Switch to Setup Provisioning tab and select Active Directory from Dropdown menu.

MFA/Two-Factor Authentication(2FA) for Windows VPN : Select Active Directory (AD)

Select Group Provisioning/Deprovisioning tab, and toggle on Import Group option.
Enter the Base DN for group sync and click Save.

MFA/Two-Factor Authentication(2FA) for Windows VPN : Enter BaseDN

If you want to dynamically allocate users to the groups present in the miniOrange, then enable "Assign Users to groups"

MFA/Two-Factor Authentication(2FA) for Windows VPN : Switch on import Group

Now switch to Import Groups option and select Active Directory from which you want to import your users.
Finally, click on Import button. Your group will be imported.

MFA/Two-Factor Authentication(2FA) for Windows VPN : User group imported successfully

(The Active Directory Group Provisioning (Sync) setup is done. Now, whenever a user is created or modified in LDAP server and if the Assign Users to groups is enabled, then user group attribute from the LDAP server will be automatically synced and the user group will be assigned or changed accordingly in miniOrange.)

Select Groups >> Manage Groups from left panel.
Click on the Create Group button on the top.

MFA/Two-Factor Authentication(2FA) for Windows VPN Manage Groups

Enter an appropriate Group Name and click on Create Group.

MFA/Two-Factor Authentication(2FA) for Windows VPN Create Groups

In this guide we have created a Group by name VPN_Group.
Assign various members to the group using the Assign User option associated with the group in the groups list.

MFA/Two-Factor Authentication(2FA) for Windows VPN User Assign

Select the Users that are required to be assigned to this group. Then Select Assign to Group in Select Action Dropdown and click on Apply button.

MFA/Two-Factor Authentication(2FA) for Windows VPN Assignment to Group

These groups will be helpful in adding multiple 2FA policies on the applications.

8. Customize MFA options for End-users

To enable 2FA/MFA for Windows VPN end-users, go to 2-Factor Authentication >> 2FA for end users.
Select default Two-Factor authentication method for end users. You can select particular 2FA methods, which you want to show on the end users dashboard.
Once Done with the settings, click on Save to configure your 2FA settings.

MFA/Two-Factor Authentication(2FA) for Windows VPN Configure 2FA Panel

9. 2FA Enrollment Steps

Once the users are imported, below steps should be followed to enroll 2fa for users.
Go to 2-Factor Authentication → 2FA Options for End Users.
Scroll down to Inline Registration 2FA.
Enable the option Enforce users to set up their 2FA Method on First Login.

MFA/2FA Two-Factor Authentication for Windows VPN

Click on Save.
The end user would login into their End-User Dashboard using the end user login URL.
For Cloud Version: The Login URL for end users will be available after setting up Organization name.

(You can follow these steps and use the login URL present in the Branding section.)

MFA/Two-Factor Authentication(2FA) for Windows VPN Cloud and On-Premise end-users Login URL

For On-Premise version: The Login URL will be the same as of Admin Login URL.
After logging in with the correct credentials for the first time, the end user would be prompted to setup their 2FA method.

Configure any 2FA method that you want. You can explore the guide to setup 2FA methods here .
After successfully configuring the 2FA, the end user would be prompted for the setting up Security Question as the alternate MFA method.
Configure the Security Questions and click on Save.

To prevent the end users from configuring Security Questions as the alternate MFA method, go to Setup 2FA → 2FA Options for End Users.
Enable the option Skip Alternate Login Method (KBA) Configuration during Inline Registration.

Click on Save.

10. Add Another Policy (Optional)

Here, we will configure a policy for the User Group that we created in the Step 7 and associate it with the Windows VPN VPN Application.
Click on Policies tab >> App Login Policy.

MFA/Two-Factor Authentication(2FA) for Windows VPN App Authentication Policy

Click on Add Policy tab.
In Application section, select the RADIUS App that we configured earlier in Step 1.
Select the required User Group in Group Name and enter the Policy name.
In this guide, we will configure a Password Only policy for "VPN_Group", so that only the VPN_Group members can access VPN Services without a Second Factor.
Once done with the policy settings, click on Save to Add Policy.

MFA/Two-Factor Authentication(2FA) for Windows VPN App Add Policy

Step 11: Test miniOrange 2FA for Windows PPTP Login

Click on the newly added VPN connection and Initiate a VPN client connection to verify your configuration by clicking on Connect.

2FA Two-Factor Authentication for Windows VPN Test VPN connection

Enter your username and password+otp passcode.

For example, given a username 'bob', with password 'passwordabc' and a miniOrange passcode '123456', you would enter:
username: bob
password: passwordabc123456

After successful validation, you are connected to Windows VPN.

2FA Two-Factor Authentication for Windows VPN Connected

For Further Details:

Adaptive Multi-Factor authentication
Integrate 2FA/MFA for other VPN Client
What is MFA?

Contents

Two-Factor Authentication for Windows VPN

miniOrange provides a ready to use 2FA solution for Windows VPN (PPTP) Platform. This solution ensures that you are ready to roll out secure access to Windows VPN to your employees within minutes.

Windows VPN 2FA/MFA

Types of 2FA Authentication with RADIUS

miniOrange 2FA authentication for Windows VPN Login

The following 2FA methods are supported for Windows VPN:

Connect with any External Directories