Email OTP login with Okta mobile swift ‘OktaDirectAuth’

[cesmejia]

Describe the bug?

I'm working with the OktaDirectAuth library… I was wondering if this library supports entering en email opt code to log in ‘natively’ (without WebAuthenticationUI).

It looks like email does not count as OTP (and probably neither SMS), an email OTP never works but if you try Google authenticator or Okta verify, they work without any issues…

What is expected to happen?

Using OktaDirectAuth: When getting an OTP via email (via factors/verify API), you should be able to log in.

What is the actual behavior?

I just tried using the Okta Authentication API to send a OTP via email ({{url}}/api/v1/users/{{userId}}/factors/{{factorId}}/verify). I’m getting the code but when I try to use that code on the Okta-mobile-swift OktaDirectAuth app it says the OTP is incorrect

Reproduction Steps?

1. Run the DirectAuthentication demo from the samples
2. Send a OTP code via email using the Okta factors API: ({{url}}/api/v1/users/{{userId}}/factors/{{factorId}}/verify)
3. In the app, Select 'One-time-code'
4. Check you email and get the code
5. Click the Sign-In button
6. You get an error alert: 'otp' provided is either empty or incorrect

Additional Information?

No response

SDK Version(s)

1.7.1

Build Information

No response

[mikenachbaur-okta]

@cesmejia In this case the otp option refers to a time-based OTP code used by various authenticator apps (see the OTP primary factor SDK docs and the underlying server API documentation).

For SMS verification you'd want to look at the OOB (aka "out-of-band") authentication factor, using the SMS OOB Channel.

That should do what you want. If you want to test the workflow in your own environment, you can try the DirectAuth sample application.

[cesmejia]

Thanks a lot for your answer Alex! What about email? Is it also oob?

On Thu 11 Jul 2024 at 4:50 p.m. Alex Nachbaur @.***> wrote:

@cesmejia https://github.com/cesmejia In this case the otp option refers to a time-based OTP code used by various authenticator apps (see the OTP primary factor SDK docs https://okta.github.io/okta-mobile-swift/development/oktadirectauth/documentation/oktadirectauth/directauthenticationflow/primaryfactor/otp(code:) and the underlying server API documentation https://developer.okta.com/docs/guides/configure-direct-auth-grants/aotp/main/ ).

For SMS verification you'd want to look at the OOB (aka "out-of-band") authentication factor https://okta.github.io/okta-mobile-swift/development/oktadirectauth/documentation/oktadirectauth/directauthenticationflow/primaryfactor/oob(channel:), using the SMS OOB Channel https://okta.github.io/okta-mobile-swift/development/oktadirectauth/documentation/oktadirectauth/directauthenticationflow/oobchannel/sms .

That should do what you want. If you want to test the workflow in your own environment, you can try the DirectAuth sample application https://github.com/okta/okta-mobile-swift/tree/master/Samples/DirectAuthSignIn .

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[mikenachbaur-okta]

@cesmejia Email would be considered an OOB factor, similar to Phone, but it is not currently supported by the Direct Auth server APIs. As soon as support is introduced on the server however, those capabilities will be exposed in this SDK at that time.

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