Easy Setup Yubikey on Manjaro Linux

If you’re like me, you want to protect your systems from all sorts of attacks. We all know that multi-factor authentication is a great tool to better protect your computers, services, and accounts. This guide will walk you through how to setup a Yubikey on Manjaro Linux. What is Yubikey? Yubikey is a hardware device, typically USB, which serves as a multi-factor authentication method. You plug the device into your USB port and when authenticating to a system, you will tap it. These devices come in various forms, such as USB-A, USB-C, NFC etc. For this guide, I assume you already have a Yubikey device, if not you can grab one from their official site. I’m using the Yubikey 5 NFC for my example. Let’s get started setting up our Yubikey on Manjaro. ...

12-01-2022 · Adam