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type: howto
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stage: Manage
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group: Access
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info: To determine the technical writer assigned to the Stage/Group associated with this page, see https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/ux/technical-writing/#designated-technical-writers
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---
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# Enforce Two-factor Authentication (2FA)
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Two-factor Authentication (2FA) provides an additional level of security to your
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users' GitLab account. Once enabled, in addition to supplying their username and
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password to login, they'll be prompted for a code generated by an application on
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their phone.
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You can read more about it here:
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[Two-factor Authentication (2FA)](../user/profile/account/two_factor_authentication.md)
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## Enforcing 2FA for all users
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Users on GitLab, can enable it without any admin's intervention. If you want to
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enforce everyone to set up 2FA, you can choose from two different ways:
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- Enforce on next login.
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- Suggest on next login, but allow a grace period before enforcing.
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After the configured grace period has elapsed, users will be able to log in but
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won't be able to leave the 2FA configuration area at `/profile/two_factor_auth`.
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To enable 2FA for all users:
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1. Navigate to **Admin Area > Settings > General**
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(`/admin/application_settings/general`).
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1. Expand the **Sign-in restrictions** section, where you can configure both.
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If you want 2FA enforcement to take effect on next login, change the grace
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period to `0`.
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## Enforcing 2FA for all users in a group
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If you want to enforce 2FA only for certain groups, you can:
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1. Enable it in the group's **Settings > General** page. Navigate to **Permissions, LFS, 2FA > Two-factor authentication**.
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You can then check the **Require all users in this group to setup Two-factor authentication** option.
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1. You can also specify a grace period in the **Time before enforced** option.
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To change this setting, you need to be administrator or owner of the group.
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> [From](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-foss/-/merge_requests/24965) GitLab 12.0, 2FA settings for a group are also applied to subgroups.
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If you want to enforce 2FA only for certain groups, you can enable it in the
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group settings and specify a grace period as above. To change this setting you
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need to be administrator or owner of the group.
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The following are important notes about 2FA:
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- Projects belonging to a 2FA-enabled group that
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[is shared](../user/project/members/share_project_with_groups.md)
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with a 2FA-disabled group will *not* require members of the 2FA-disabled group to use
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2FA for the project. For example, if project *P* belongs to 2FA-enabled group *A* and
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is shared with 2FA-disabled group *B*, members of group *B* can access project *P*
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without 2FA. To ensure this scenario doesn't occur,
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[prevent sharing of projects](../user/group/index.md#share-with-group-lock)
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for the 2FA-enabled group.
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- If you add additional members to a project within a group or subgroup that has
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2FA enabled, 2FA is **not** required for those individually added members.
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- If there are multiple 2FA requirements (for example, group + all users, or multiple
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groups) the shortest grace period will be used.
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## Disabling 2FA for everyone
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CAUTION: **Caution:**
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Disabling 2FA for everyone does not disable the [enforce 2FA for all users](#enforcing-2fa-for-all-users)
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or [enforce 2FA for all users in a group](#enforcing-2fa-for-all-users-in-a-group)
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settings. In addition to the steps in this section, you will need to disable any enforced 2FA
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settings so users aren't asked to set up 2FA again, the next time the user signs in to GitLab.
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Disabling 2FA for everyone does not disable the [enforce 2FA for all users](#enforcing-2fa-for-all-users)
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or [enforce 2FA for all users in a group](#enforcing-2fa-for-all-users-in-a-group)
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settings if they have been configured. In addition to the steps in this section,
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you will need to disable any enforced 2FA settings so users aren't asked to setup
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2FA again when the next login to GitLab.
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There may be some special situations where you want to disable 2FA for everyone
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even when forced 2FA is disabled. There is a Rake task for that:
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```shell
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# Omnibus installations
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sudo gitlab-rake gitlab:two_factor:disable_for_all_users
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# Installations from source
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sudo -u git -H bundle exec rake gitlab:two_factor:disable_for_all_users RAILS_ENV=production
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```
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CAUTION: **Caution:**
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This is a permanent and irreversible action. Users will have to
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reactivate 2FA from scratch if they want to use it again.
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