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#29999 Login Guard not for customers

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Latest post by on Thursday, 23 August 2018 17:17 CDT

baroen
Hi,
Is it possible to prevent the LoginGuard 'Question window' to be shown to new customers?
I only want Double Authentication enabled for adminusers entering the backend.
greetings,

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
Edit the User - Akeeba LoginGuard Protection plugin. Set the Access to Special (or any other access level which only includes your administrators). This limits the Two Step Verification prompts and the links to the Two Step Verification setup page in the user profile only to your administrators.

Please note that Two Step Verification (TSV) will apply to administrators when they log in to the backend and the frontend of the site. This is by design and makes perfect sense: logged in administrators can still cause quite the damage in the frontend of the site, therefore you have to protect that login as well. If you were to somehow only ask them for TSV in the backend you have completely missed the point of TSV: an attacker who has stolen the admin credentials could log into the frontend of the site and inject malicious code in the sites articles, edit / disable modules or even modify the site's Global Configuration. DO NOT assume that they only way to administer a site is from the backend.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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