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Get Available Authentication Factors

Use this API to return a list of authentication factors that are available for user enrollment via API. This list is dependent upon the given user’s policy configuration.

Once a factor has been enrolled by a user it will no longer be returned in this request.

For a full list of factors that a user has enrolled via UI or API use the Get Enrolled Factors call.

The API supports enrollment of SMS, Voice, Email, Google Authenticator, and OneLogin Protect.

Resource URL

https://api.us.onelogin.com/api/2/mfa/users/{user_id}/factors

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 Parameter

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.

Sample Response

  • 200 OK
  • 401 Unauthorized
[
    {
        "factor_id": 58958,
        "name": "OneLogin Protect",
        "auth_factor_name": "OneLogin"
    },
    {
        "factor_id": 58959,
        "name": "OneLogin SMS",
        "auth_factor_name": "SMS"
    },
    {
        "factor_id": 58960,
        "name": "OneLogin Voice",
        "auth_factor_name": "OneLogin Voice"
    },
    {
        "factor_id": 58961,
        "name": "OneLogin Email",
        "auth_factor_name": "OneLogin Email"
    },
    {
        "factor_id": 58957,
        "name": "Authenticator",
        "auth_factor_name": "Google Authenticator"
    }
]

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

Response Elements

name

Authentication factor name, as it appears to administrators in OneLogin.

auth_factor_name

Internal use only
factor_id Identifier for the factor which will be used for user enrollment

Postman Collection

Replace sample variables indicated by {{ }} with your actual values.

Download for the MFA API

Sample Code

cURL

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

curl 'https://<api-domain>/api/2/mfa/users/<user_id>/factors' \
-X GET \
-H "Authorization: bearer: <access_token>" \

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StackOverflow discussions about "[onelogin] mfa api"

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    Q: AWS API credentials with OneLogin SAML and MFA

    Asked Oct 30 2016

    We want to allow our users to retrieve a set of temporary CLI credentials for a given AWS role by signing in to OneLogin with password and MFA. … We have a working solution, but it requires the user to fully re-authenticate to OneLogin (including MFA) every 60 minutes as the AWS temporary credentials expire. …

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    Q: Implement custom connector to in-house applications

    Asked Dec 05 2016

    Basically the company I work at wants to implement a "login using OneLogin" to our in-house applications and we have MFA enabled. … I tried the API route but it requires the user to enter the MFA code every time they want to log in, which is great for security but users want simple solution. …

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    Q: Getting a SAML assertion after creating a session via API

    Asked Apr 04 2017

    Related to Accessing Third Party Apps After Creating A Session Via API Token and to AWS API credentials with OneLogin SAML and MFA Since AWS assumeRoleWithSAML temporary security credentials are only … It's totally odd to the web base OneLogin usage, where he is logged in once for the whole day or even week (depending on the policy). I know how to get a session via API. …

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    A: Getting a SAML assertion after creating a session via API

    Answered Apr 05 2017

    The "assume user" privilege is locked down pretty tightly in OneLogin, and is not the sort of thing that's given out lightly. … This wouldn't allow for MFA on an app policy, but we are building out the ability to request and verify MFA via API (coming soon) so you could implement MFA in your app (independent of any app policy) …

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    Q: Onelogin API - Verify Factor for SAML assertion when using Duo

    Asked Oct 11 2017

    I've been developing an application that hits the api/1/saml_assertion, https://developers.onelogin.com/api-docs/1/saml-assertions/generate-saml-assertion , endpoint of OneLogin with Duo as my MFA. … duo_sig_request looks like this: 'duo_sig_request': 'TX|<base64 encoded elements>|<what looks like a sha1 hash>:APP|<base64 encoded elements>|<what looks like a sha1 hash>' duo_api_hostname is just the API …

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