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RADIUS Authentication

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Starting in 3.0, ProVision supports 6connect vendor-specific attributes (VSAs) for use with RADIUS authentication. To use these attributes, you must perform the following procedures:

  • Add the 6connect VSA to the Radius installation
  • Configure Radius accounts
  • Test the Radius account
  • Configure ProVision for Radius Authentication

Add the 6connect 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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Note
Make sure to add the following to the primary dictionary file:  $INCLUDE dictionary.6connect

Configure Radius Accounts

On the Radius server, configure the user accounts that will have access to the ProVision system.

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Note
titleNote on RADIUS attributes
There are many Radius attributes, but '6connect_user_group' is the one used by 6connect ProVision and it is just a comma-separated list of all the group names that the user belongs to.

Test Radius Accounts

For 3.9.3 and prior, test and response should look like the following:

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For 4.0 and higher, test and response should look like the following:

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Configure ProVision for Radius Authentication

To configure the use of Radius authentication with ProVision, follow the steps below.

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