Kushal Das: Multi-factor authentication in django

Multi-factor authentication is a must have feature in any modern web application. Specially providing support for both TOTP (think applications on phone) and FIDO2 (say Yubikeys) usage. I created a small Django demo mfaforgood which shows how to enable both.

I am using django-mfa3 for all the hard work, but specially from a PR branch from my friend Giuseppe De Marco.

I also fetched the cbor-js package in the repository so that hardware tokens for FIDO2 to work. I hope this example will help you add the MFA support to your Django application.

Major points of the code

• Adding example templates from MFA project, with admin theme and adding cbor-js to the required templates.
• Adding mfa to INSTALLED_APPS.
• Adding mfa.middleware.MfaSessionMiddleware to MIDDLEWARE.
• Adding MFA_DOMAIN and MFA_SITE_TITLE to settings.py.
• Also adding STATICFILES_DIRS.
• Adding mfa.views.MFAListView as the Index view of the application.
• Also adding mfa URLs.

After login for the first time one can enable MFA in the following screen.