To enable a user account with two-factor authentication, the administrator has to carry out two steps:

  1. Configure a realm and set TOTP authentication as its secondary authentication 
  2. Create a sign-in policy

Create a Realm

1- Select Users>User Realms>New User Realm

2- Setup similar to below, making sure the primary authentication is set to your AD Connection*:

Appendix - Setup AD connection

3- Tick the option Enable additional authentication server ,

4- In Authenticaation #2, select SafeID_Auth server that you set up in the previous step.

5- Click on Save Changes.  This will take you to the Role Mapping page.

6- Click the New Rule... button to create a new rule.

7- Complete the form as below

  • Enter a name to describe this new rule, e.g. SafeID_Rule
  • Enter * in the rule box
  • Click "Add >>" button

8- Click Save Changes, you should now get the same as this: 


Create a Sign-in Policy

  1. Go to Authentication>Signing In>Sign-in Policies
  2. Click on New URL

  3. The Sign-in URL is what follows your pulse server hostname e.g. www.Pulsesecure.com/SafeID/.  For this you can just specify a wildcard followed by the URL as above.

  4. Select the User Realm you have created, e.g. "SafeID_Realm

  5. Click on Save Changes 


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