Force MFA for One Specific Application

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Last Updated: Sep 24, 2024

Overview

This article describes how to enforce MFA for only one application within the tenant.

Applies To

  • Multifactor Authentication (MFA)
  • MFA for Applications

Solution

Follow the steps or video below.

NOTE: As the intention is to enforce an MFA challenge for a single application, it is first necessary to set ‘require MFA’ to Never in the tenant settings:

  1. Login to the Auth0 dashboard.
  2. Navigate to Security > Multi-factor Auth.
  3. In the Define Policies box, select the Never option.

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Next, an Action can be defined to enforce MFA for one or more applications. This code sample shows how this function might be implemented:

exports.onExecutePostLogin = async (event, api) => {
	const CLIENTS_WITH_MFA = [
		'{yourClientId1}', 
		'{yourClientId2}',
		'{yourClientId3}'
	];

	if (CLIENTS_WITH_MFA.includes(event.client.client_id)) {
		api.multifactor.enable('guardian', { allowRememberBrowser: false })
	}
}

This example makes use of these Action properties:

  • the event.client properties of the Event Object
  • the api.multifactor.enable(provider, options) properties of the API Object

In this instance, ‘guardian’ has been chosen as the MFA provider, though the other possible options are:

  • any Use any of the configured challenges.
  • duo Use the Duo multifactor provider.
  • google-authenticator Use the Google Authenticator provider.
  • guardian Use the Guardian provider.

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