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Activate an Authentication Factor

Use this API to trigger an SMS, Voice, Email or Push notification containing a One-Time Password (OTP) that can be used to authenticate a user with the Verify Factor call. For OneLogin Protect or Google Authenticator with OTP, this call needs to be performed to generate a verification_id which can be used to validate the OTP code.









Resource URL

https://<subdomain>/api/2/mfa/users/<user_id>/verifications

Header Parameter

Authorization

required

string

Set to bearer:<access_token>.

Set <access_token> to the access token you generated using the Generate Token API.

The access token must have been generated using an API credential pair created using the scope required to call this API. This API can be called using the Manage All scope.

Resource Parameters

user_id

required

integer

Set to the id of the user.

If you don’t know the user’s id, use the Get Users API call to return all users and their id values.

Request Parameter

device_id

integer

Required. Specifies the factor to be verified.

expires_in

integer

Optional. Sets the window of time in seconds that the factor must be verified within.

Defaults to 120 seconds (2 minutes). Max 900 seconds (15 minutes).

redirect_to

string

Optional. Only applies to Email MagicLink factor.

Redirects MagicLink success page to specified URL after 2 seconds.

custom_message

string

Optional. Only applies to SMS factor.

A message template that will be sent via SMS. Max length of the message after template items are inserted is 160 characters including the OTP code.

The following template variables can be included in the message.

  • {{otp_code}} - The security code.
  • {{otp_expiry}} - The number of minutes until the one time code expires.

Request Body

With optional expires_in value for OTP

{
    "device_id": 2825320,
    "expires_in": 240
}

With optional redirect_to value for MagicLink factor

{
    "device_id": 2825320,
    "redirect_to": "https://google.com"
}

Sample Response

OneLogin SMS

  • 201 Created
  • 401 Unauthorized
[
  {
    "user_display_name": "OneLogin SMS",
    "id": "afc1a96d-2006-452a-a484-b2d084b00d76",
    "auth_factor_name": "SMS",
    "type_display_name": "OneLogin SMS",
    "user_id": "64515901",
    "device_id": "3920371",
    "expires_at": "2020-07-21T20:26:44Z"
  }
]

{
    "statusCode": 401,
    "name": "InvalidCredentials",
    "message": "Please provide valid credentials"
}

OneLogin Email

  • 201 Created
  • 401 Unauthorized
{
    "user_display_name": "Email",
    "id": "a274ea6b-8c3f-403b-8388-92028db4763a",
    "auth_factor_name": "OneLogin Email",
    "type_display_name": "Email",
    "user_id": "12345678",
    "device_id": "6123456",
    "expires_at": "2021-01-27T20:32:44Z"
}


{
    "statusCode": 401,
    "name": "InvalidCredentials",
    "message": "Please provide valid credentials"
}

OneLogin Voice

  • 201 Created
  • 401 Unauthorized
{
    "user_display_name": "OneLogin Voice",
    "id": "906621ef-0a42-4032-ae34-673d439f8326",
    "auth_factor_name": "OneLogin Voice",
    "type_display_name": "OneLogin Voice",
    "user_id": "87654321",
    "device_id": "1234567",
    "expires_at": "2021-01-27T20:34:05Z",
    "factor_data": {
        "verification_token": "123456"
    }
}

{
    "statusCode": 401,
    "name": "InvalidCredentials",
    "message": "Please provide valid credentials"
}

OneLogin Protect

  • 201 Created
  • 401 Unauthorized
{
    "user_display_name": "OneLogin Protect",
    "id": "f4c4a72c-c9f4-4b52-90f1-1740bcc6332e",
    "auth_factor_name": "OneLogin",
    "type_display_name": "OneLogin Protect",
    "user_id": "12345678",
    "device_id": "7654321"
}

{
    "statusCode": 401,
    "name": "InvalidCredentials",
    "message": "Please provide valid credentials"
}

Response Elements

expires_at A short lived token that is required to Verify the Factor. This token expires based on the expires_in parameter passed in.
auth_factor_name Authentication factor name, as it appears to administrators in OneLogin.
type_display_name Authentication factor display name as it appears to users upon initial registration, as defined by admins at Settings > Authentication Factors.
user_display_name Authentication factor display name assigned by users when they enroll the device.
id Verification identifier used in subsequent verification step.
user_id Identifier for the user.

Postman Collection

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Sample Code

cURL

Replace sample values indicated by < > with your actual values.

curl 'https://<subdomain>/api/2/mfa/users/<user_id>/verifications' \
-X POST \
-H "Authorization: bearer: <access_token>" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
    "device_id": 1234567,
    "expires_in": 240
}'

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