Devise Google Authenticator¶ ↑

This is a devise extension to allow your app to utilise Google Authenticator for Time-based One Time Passwords (TOTP).

Installation¶ ↑

Add the gem to your Gemfile (don’t forget devise too):

• gem ‘devise’

• gem ‘devise_google_authenticator’, ‘0.3.16’

Don’t forget to “bundle install”

Devise Installation (In case you haven’t done it)¶ ↑

Before you can setup Devise Google Authenticator you need to setup Devise first, you need to do the following (but refer to github.com/plataformatec/devise for more information)

Install Devise:

• rails g devise:install

Setup the User or Admin model

• rails g devise MODEL

Configure your app for authorisation, edit your Controller and add this before_filter:

• before_filter :authenticate_user!

Make sure your “root” route is configured in config/routes.rb

Automatic Installation (Lets assume this is a bare bones app)¶ ↑

Run the following generator to add the necessary configuration options to Devise’s config file:

• rails g devise_google_authenticator:install

After you’ve created your Devise user models (which is usually done with a “rails g devise MODEL”), set up your Google Authenticator additions:

• rails g devise_google_authenticator MODEL

Don’t forget to migrate if you’re NOT using Mongoid as your database ORM, Mongoid installations will have appropriate fields added to the model after the command above:

• rake db:migrate

Installation With Existing Users¶ ↑

After the above steps have been performed, you’ll need to generate secrets for each user:

User.where(:gauth_secret => nil).find_each do |user|
 user.send(:assign_auth_secret)
 user.save!
end

By default, users won’t need to perform two-factor authentication (gauth_enabled=‘f’). By visiting /MODEL/displayqr (eg: /users/displayqr) and submitting the form, two-factor authentication will then be turned on (gauth_enabled=1) and required for subsequent logins.

Configuration Options¶ ↑

The install generator adds some options to the end of your Devise config file (config/initializers/devise.rb)

• config.ga_timeout - how long should the user be able to authenticate with their Google Authenticator token

• config.ga_timedrift - a multiplier which provides for drift between a user’s clock (and therefore their OTP) and the system clock. This should be fine at 3.

• config.ga_remembertime - how long to remember the token for before requiring another. By default this is 1 month. To disable this setting change it to nil.

• config.ga_appname - If you want to set a custom application name instead of using the name of the Rails app.

• config.ga_bypass_signup - If you don’t want to immediately forward newly registered or signed-up users to the Display QR page. If this is enabled, users will have to visit the /displayqr page to enable Google Authenticator.

Custom Views¶ ↑

If you want to customise your views (which you likely will want to, as they’re pretty ugly right now), you can use the generator:

• rails g devise_google_authenticator:views

Usage¶ ↑

With this extension enabled, the following is expected behaviour:

• When a user registers, they are forwarded onto the Display QR page (unless ga_bypass_signup is set to true). This allows them to add their new “token” to their mobile device, and enable, or disable, the functionality. To enable/disable the functionality, the user has to enter the current token.

• If users can’t self-register, they’re still able to visit this page by visiting /MODEL/displayqr (eg: /users/displayqr).

• If the function is enabled (for that user), when they sign in, they’ll be prompted for their password (as per normal), but then redirected into the Check QR page. They have to enter their token (from their device) to then successfully authenticate.

• If configured (by default to 1 month), the user will only be prompted for the token every 1 month.

I18n¶ ↑

The install generator also installs an english copy of a Devise Google Authenticator i18n file. This can be modified (or used to create other language versions) and is located at: config/locales/devise.google_authenticator.en.yml

Changes¶ ↑

• Version 0.3.18 - A few more bug-fixes. Test-cases are now passing in Ruby 2.3.0. No longer reliant on external Google APIs for generating QR code. Support for devise authentication usernames other than email address. Bugfix, making migration to set gauth_secret field optional. This provides better support for our friends using Mongoid

• Version 0.3.17 - A new secret code (assign_auth_secret) for the google authenticator is created, if a user visits the settings page as long as the google authenticator is not active.

• Version 0.3.16 - A few bug-fixes. Test-cases are now passing in Ruby 1.9.3 and 2.1.5

• Version 0.3.15 - Can now configure whether the displayqr page is displayed during sign-up. Can customise the app’s name (thanks Felipe Lima). Require the users to enter the token when enabling or disabling the token (thanks again Felipe Lima). Handle namespaced Devise models (thanks Mikkel Garcia). Ability to set an Issuer within the OTP generation (thanks Sylvain UTARD)

• Version 0.3.14 - Users can now generate a new token if they wish. This is available from the displayqr page

• Version 0.3.13 - Merged a feature to allow a qualifier for the Google Authenticator token display. This allows you to specify in your view a qualifier for the name of the OTP when it’s enrolled into the Google Authenticator app. Thanks Michael Guymon for the pull

• Version 0.3.12 - Re-introduced Warden’s after_authentication callback. Thanks Sunny Ng for the pull

• Version 0.3.11 - Fixed a bug where if the Devise module was included within something else, such as Active Admin, rewriting back to the CheckGA functionality was broken. This update addresses github.com/AsteriskLabs/devise_google_authenticator/issues/7

• Version 0.3.10 - Added support for Mongoid ORM in addition to ActiveRecord. (Still no appropriate testing for, but I’ve run this on vanilla Rails 4.0.4 and Devise 3.2.3 apps)

• Version 0.3.9 - Merging fix from zhenyuchen (deprecated ActiveRecord query grammar) - also, re-tested against Rails 4.0.4 and Devise 3.2.3

• Version 0.3.8 - Support for remembering the token authentication. (i.e. don’t request the token for a configurable amount of time Thanks github.com/blahblahblah-) - and seriously, I’m going to try and refactor all the integration tests with Rspec

• Version 0.3.7 - Support for current Devise (3.2.0) and Rails4 (Thanks github.com/ronald05arias) - integration test still broke - need to address this

• Version 0.3.6 - Slight updates - increased key size, more open gemspec, updated en.yml. (Thanks Michael Guymon)

• Version 0.3.5 - Updated README for Rails apps with existing users. (Thanks Jon Collier)

• Version 0.3.4 - Updated test cases to function properly, and tested working with Devise 2.2 (up to at least Devise 2.2.4)

• Version 0.3.3 - Updated some of the redirect methods to proper align with Devise 2.1.0. Also tidied up some of the test routines to proper replicate Devise 2.1.0

• Version 0.3.2 - Updated to include support for Devise 2.0.0 and above (no longer supports 1.5.3 or lower), you’ll need version 0.3.1 to use older Devise

• Version 0.3.1 - Slight updated in the dependencies

• Version 0.3 - first working version! With working generators, tests, and doesnt require changes to Devise’s Sign In view

• Version 0.2 - tidied up some of the code - changed the references to AsteriskLabs

• Version 0.1 - initial release, just to push it up, is still very early and requires a bit work

Thanks (and unknown contributors)¶ ↑

This extension would not exist without the following other projects and associated authors (Whom I have turned to for inspiration and definitely have helped contributing by providing awesome Devise extensions. A lot of this code has been refactored from various sources, in particular these - in particular Sergio and Devise_invitable for his excellent unit test code):

• Devise (José Valim, Carlos Antônio da Silva, Rodrigo Flores) github.com/plataformatec/devise

• Devise_invitable (Sergio Cambra) github.com/scambra/devise_invitable

• Devise_openid_authenticatable (Nat Budin) github.com/nbudin/devise_openid_authenticatable

• Devise_security_extension (Team Phatworx, Marco Scholl, Alexander Dreher) github.com/phatworx/devise_security_extension

• Ronald Arias github.com/ronald05arias

• Sunny Ng github.com/blahblahblah-

• Michael Guymon github.com/mguymon

• Mikkel Garcia github.com/mikkel

• Ricky Reusser github.com/rreusser

• Felipe Lima github.com/felipecsl

• Sylvain Utard github.com/redox

Contributing to devise_google_authenticator¶ ↑

• Check out the latest master to make sure the feature hasn’t been implemented or the bug hasn’t been fixed yet

• Check out the issue tracker to make sure someone already hasn’t requested it and/or contributed it

• Fork the project

• Start a feature/bugfix branch

• Commit and push until you are happy with your contribution

• Make sure to add tests for it. This is important so I don’t break it in a future version unintentionally.

• Please try not to mess with the Rakefile, version, or history. If you want to have your own version, or is otherwise necessary, that is fine, but please isolate to its own commit so I can cherry-pick around it.

Copyright¶ ↑

Copyright © 2014 Christian Frichot. See LICENSE.txt for further details.