2.1. Python Package Index

You can install privacyidea on usually any Linux distribution in a python virtual environment. This way you keep all privacyIDEA code in one defined subdirectory.

You first need to install some development packages. E.g. on debian based distributions the packages are called

  • libjpeg-dev
  • libz-dev
  • python-dev
  • libffi-dev
  • libssl-dev

Now you can install privacyIDEA like this:

virtualenv /opt/privacyidea

cd /opt/privacyidea
source bin/activate

Now you are within the python virtual environment. Within the environment you can now run:

pip install privacyidea

Please see the section The Config File for a quick setup of your configuration.

Then create the encryption key and the signing keys:

pi-manage create_enckey
pi-manage create_audit_keys

Create the database and the first administrator:

pi-manage createdb
pi-manage admin add admin admin@localhost

Now you can run the server for your first test:

pi-manage runserver

Depending on the database you want to use, you may have to install additional packages.

Footnotes

[1]https://launchpad.net/~privacyidea
[2]https://github.com/privacyidea/privacyidea/tree/master/authmodules/simpleSAMLphp