RADIUS Authentication
ProVision supports 6connect vendor-specific attributes (VSAs) for use with RADIUS authentication. To use these attributes, you must perform the following procedures:
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VSA to the Radius Installation
To use the 6connect VSA, the attributes must be defined on the RADIUS server. Add the following RADIUS dictionary file to your RADIUS server and name it dictionary.6connect:
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| There are many Radius attributes, but '6connect_user_group' is the one used by 6connect ProVision. It is a comma-separated list of all the group names that the user belongs to. |
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To configure the use of Radius authentication with ProVision, follow the steps below.
- Log into 6connect ProVision
- Go to Admin -> Authentication
- Ensure that Radius functions are marked as available. Radius functions are always available on 6connect cloud instances. Radius functions are available on VM Images and Local Installations only if the relevant PHP Pear Radius Libraries have been installed.
- Click the Radius Enable checkbox.
- Fill in the hostname or ip address, authentication ports, accounting port, and shared Radius key as specified.
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In the login screen, you would select the authentication method from the dropdown. If you like, you can set the default login option in the following way: Go to the /data/globals.php and open in vi (or other editor). Add in the following text as the last line of the file (before the closing ?>) define('DEFAULT_LOGIN_TYPE', 'radius'); |