Technical Tip: Create a user with SMS based two-factor authentication

[ymasaki]

Description

This article describes how to create a user with SMS based two-factor authentication on FortiGate.

Note that the option is not available in GUI by default and the setting is required to configure from CLI as follows.

Solution
1) The option is not available in GUI by default.

2) Configure a user with two-factor option from CLI.

# config user local
    edit test
        set two-factor sms
        set sms-custom-server “TEST”
    end
end

3) The option becomes available in GUI after the CLI setting is configured.