Setup Free 2 Factor Authentication For Windows | Duo

If you're looking to add a little extra security to your homelab or home network, this is a great way to do so. We're going to leverage Duo's free tier of MFA products, Duo MFA, to add another layer of protection to our homelab. Even if you needed to bump up to one of their commercial plans, Duo is a fairly cost effective solution with products ranging from $3-9 per month per user. They even provide a free version that is good for up to 10 users. That is what we will be looking at today.

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[Pham-Bao-Hoa]

Hi, beautiful presentation but I have a question, how do I deploy this in my LAN where all machines have no Internet access? I tried running the installation files and it could not pass the first step where you input the API hostname.

[JM-qdjh]

Thanks for the video. The information about "Adding a User" in Duo's online account is somewhat confusing. I am setting this up on my personal Windows 11 laptop so that it prompts me to validate via the DUO app on my phone that it is really me who is logging in.

[iamdedlok]

Good morning Alex! Hello from Sydney, Australia!
Loved this video! I have a Win 10 home workstation, and I was looking for exactly this!
Just tested this out yesterday following your instruction and its working like a charm!
I will sleep a little better at night knowing that even when I have to turn on RDP for my home lab, it's secured by an additional layer of protection! Whew!!!

[BradGrow]

Thank you so much for doing this tutorial. A couple of useful things to include would be how to help users with login issues. How to disable for that user or something. How to help them reset their duo or whatever problems one could run into. Planning on setting duo up for a small business next week, so thanks again for the awesome tutorial!

[ScottPlude]

This tutorial looks a bit different from the current product (it ALWAYS happens) but this is straightforward and much easier to follow than the docs from DUO. Thank you so much!

[greg]

Thank you Alexander. I now have an internet facing windows server with a 35 character password and DUO MFA.

[abhisheksingla]

You configure duo for RDP then how did it prompted you for MFA at initial login. Please explain for MacBook that are domain joined. How do you configure AD sync with Duo

[harryrhodes]

Thanks for the video. One of my main clients still uses RSA and its just painful to administer. Duo is a god send.

[dwainjones]

Great video. I get some of it but after watching several times I'm still lost. I cant locate my Active Directory?? Im just trying to protect my personal PC. Duo support was no help.

[alannaoli]

This tutorial is amazing! Was suffering on how to apply mfa for a lab and this made everything make sense and worked, thank you!

[Stitch-smart]

Nice Video - do you have one where you apply this at the AD level though, not the local workstation level?
When in a corporate environment - is the installation of the Duo client software a requirement on every single PC/server, etc required to make Duo MFA a thing?
i.e. could I just add a new Windows 10 PC to the domain skip Duo client and BAM I have a way to access the domain without MFA?

[nacerbenchikh]

Do us a tutorial on the realization of PAM under windows server.
please

[yoganector]

Excellent tutorial! However, i tried to set up by myself with out having a remote desktop ...now i can not log in to my laptop as it has only one log in id that is my administrative log on id and it says"access not allowed because you are not enrolled to duo. contact to it help desk".
I am relived that the entire set up is done correctly ...now how can i log in my laptop when i dont have rdp?
Any suggestion is appreciated

[larsstampe]

Really interesting to see the process. Very good commentary. 👍

[sergio]

Great video, thanks bro! I'm going to give it a try.

[Nosuchthingasnormalhere]

that duo pop up looks so ugly, couldnt they make it look better or white label it god. Good stuff though.