Enforce MFA for SSH Access Using Teleport Role-Based Access Control
Learn how to create a Teleport role that enforces MFA for SSH access, upload it with tctl, verify login prompts, and recover if users are locked out.
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Learn how to create a Teleport role that enforces MFA for SSH access, upload it with tctl, verify login prompts, and recover if users are locked out.
Teleport's Just-in-Time (JIT) access replaces standing SSH keys with short-lived certificates, approval workflows, and automatic revocation. Learn how to configure roles, request access, and verify the certificate lifecycle.
Decide whether to use Teleport’s managed Omni service or a self‑hosted Access Plane cluster. Compare key constraints, trade‑offs, and see a concrete OIDC‑enabled deployment example with short‑lived certificates.
Stop managing static SSH keys. Learn how Teleport uses short-lived certificates and node labels to implement a zero-trust RBAC model for infrastructure access.
Guide to choosing Teleport's RBAC source: static local roles vs OIDC/JWT‑derived roles, with a comparison table, trade‑offs, and step‑by‑step OIDC setup.
An architecture note on Teleport's short-lived certificate model: the minimal Auth/Proxy/Agent topology, where the trust boundaries sit, why revocation is really TTLs, and the failure modes worth testing.
A decision guide for setting Teleport SSH certificate TTLs: compare 15‑minute to 24‑hour options, understand the security/friction trade‑off, configure per‑role TTLs, and validate with tsh status and audit logs.
A diagnostic guide for resolving Teleport connectivity and authentication failures between the Proxy and Auth Service, focusing on TLS, ports, and gRPC errors.
Guide to choosing Teleport auth method: compare local, OIDC, SAML; show GitHub OIDC setup and verification steps.