Set up Free Radius on PfSense with two factor authentication for OpenVPN

In this video I'll go through how to setup FreeRadius on pfsense for the purposes of using two factor authentication on OpenVPN . Two factor authentication strengthens the security of your VPN connection because a successful connection requires, an SSL certificate, user name, pin code and one time password (Via Google Authenticator in this video)
If you haven't already setup OpenVPN on your PfSense box, please take a look at my previous video here:
• PfSense OpenVPN Config...
In this video I go through the steps of:
Installing FreeRadius 3
Setting up the initial Free Radius parameters
Creating a couple of test users
Testing these users authenticate OK
Setting up the two factor authentication in Free Radius
Installing Google Authenticator on an Android phone
Going through establishing a connection for the first time.
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Items used in this video:
Samsung Galaxy S5 phone
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MHL cable
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Used in conjunction with the above phone (Which I already owned) to output HDMI to record Google Authenticator setup as the security on the phone stops this being recorded via a screen recorder.
HDMI to USB capture Card
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Used to record from an HDMI source, in this case via the MHL cable plugged into the Galaxy S5 phone
Screen and HDMI capture was done using OBS Studio:
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Intro and Outro video was filmed using a OnePlus 5 phone with software from Iriun to capture video into OBS Studio
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Sound was recorded using a Boya BY-M1 lapel microphone with Audacity
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For lighting I used 3 x 70 LED photography lights:
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Video production was done using Cyberlink Power Director 19 Ultimate
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Hardware used for PfSense
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[@dusanvuckovic9888]

Man you should continue doing this . Its been a while since I watched a tutorial and it worked first time out. Really! . Excellent .

[@ethangender]

after days and days searching i found you by accident! your explanation its very concrete with no circles and detailed! congratulations!

[@homeassistantiptv8068]

Excellent steps and perfect speed, thank you

[@RobertSloan]

Glad it was helpful!

[@TheIceturk]

hi, ldap + Free Radius on PfSense with two factor authentication for OpenVPN my question is ldap + PfSense with two factor authentication support and method help pls

[@compthing5656]

better than any other out there. Really!

[@djotade]

Excellent setup guide working first time. Thank you very much for sharing.

[@paulk9532]

"a successful connection requires, an SSL certificate, user name, pin code and one time password" But at 6:50 you disabled the TLS certificate requirement, allowing users to connect without a unique cert, so isn't this just username, pin, and otp code?

[@TheCpufixer]

How do I prevent clients from disconnecting? Because of the MFA, they can't reconnect without entering a new password? The disconnecting after an hour only started after implementing FreeRadius

[@gigilari2376]

good morning, Can you implement access via complex password and otp instead of pin+opt? the second solution seems unsafe to me.

[@TheCpufixer]

Can the Microsoft Authenticator be used instead of Google? Will this work if my users don't want to use an authenticator App? What about the encryption provided by the user certificate? Does that go away since new users are being created without certs?

[@slackmoon]

Awesome. Thanks a lot! It works well done

[@ngocnguyenit]

How setup to ldap + otp on pfsense or if free radius+ user can change password+ otp, pls help me🎉🎉

[@abdurahimshoyimov9711]

Very Good tutorial, thank you very much. You are time sasver

[@yogeshmishra5219]

You gave the perfect explanation !!

[@TradersTradingEdge]

Excellent, thanks and continue your great explanation videos!

[@escuderon]

Hey There, any way to do this same thing but using an Active Directory backend for users instead of freeraduis local DB?

[@paulk9532]

FreeRadius supports both LDAP or AD via LDAP if you set some extra options. But the OTP support in FreeRadius is internal can't be tied to another auth provider.

[@akramazad5137]

You completely escaped the OpenVPN, I followed your tutorial step by step but doesn’t work it was great if you did it step-by-step

[@RobertSloan]

Could you tell me at what point you had the issue. I mentioned in my intro that if you hadn't already setup OpenVPN to refer to my previous video on how to set this up.

[@greatsystem1820]

Hi, It's not working for me I have configured the same steps but it is giving me error of TLS handshake failed, could you please help me out to fix this. I need to configure OpenVPN with SAML authentication for my office.

[@ngocnguyenit]

how to user can change password?

[@heiaheiaheiahei]

easy to follow and setup , thanks.

[@BrianThomas]

Is there a way to configure MFA on the web configuration (GUI) to limit admin access?

[@emre-durgut]

How we can disable PIN and login only by using username and Google Authenticator rolling code?

[@bsem68]

Works great, but is there a way for users to generate their own OTP code?

[@woolloomoolooable]

Thank you!

[@andersnilsson601]

Anyone that knows how to keep the VPN connection up for longer than an hour or so? It seems to timeout if not used... I have tried to Custom option "reneg-sec 43200;" in the VPN server section

[@charlykjoseph]

Great Video

[@nicolaszabala4303]

Thank you very much!

[@HafizWien]

Same here doesn’t work the OpenVPN steps escaped