Setting up passwordless authentication for your website

Joomla 4 introduced the possibility to log in to your website through WebAuthn authentication. WebAuthn is the W3C Web Authentication method and allows you to implement a passwordless login using a FIDO2 or FIDO U2F authenticator, which can be either physical or virtual. Examples of authenticators that are supported include Windows Hello, Apple TouchID, Apple FaceID, and others.

Let’s learn how to enable passwordless authentication in Joomla:

1. From the System Dashboard area, click on Plugins.
2. In the search box, type WebAuthn; then, press Enter.
3. Click on the System – WebAuthn Passwordless Login plugin.
4. Enable the plugin by changing its Status to Enabled, as shown in Figure 16.1, and click on Save & Close:

Figure 16.1 – System – WebAuthn Passwordless Login

As you can see, the plugin has an option – disabled by default – to increase...