How to Automatically Turn On and Off the MFA in the Tenant

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Overview

This article details how to toggle MFA enforcement across a tenant via automation.

Applies To

  • Multifactor Authentication (MFA)

Solution

This can be achieved via Management API but the exact manner that you achieve this will depend on how you are planning to trigger MFA.

  1. Via a tenant-wide policy

    If MFA is enforced via a policy at Security > Multi-factor Auth page in the dashboard, this policy can be toggled using the PUT /api/v2/guardian/policies endpoint as described here.

    If it is desired to choose Never as the policy, simply pass in an empty array.

  2. Via a Post-Login Action

    If MFA is enforced conditionally via a Post-Login Action, update and deploy the Action programmatically. Use the following two endpoints for this:

This can also be achieved via tools like Auth0 Deploy CLI and Auth0 Terraform Provider by updating the respective entities.