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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:

Important Note:  Between version 3.9.3 and 4.0, the permissions structure for ProVision was significantly changed.  Make sure you following the version specific instructions below.

ProVision 3.9.3 and prior: http://cloud.6connect.com/Download/Radius/3.9.3/6connect_VSA.txt

ProVision 4.0 and greater: http://cloud.6connect.com/Download/Radius/4.0/6connect_VSA.txt

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.

An example of a ProVision account configuration for the user file on a Freeradius system for version 3.9.3 and prior: http://cloud.6connect.com/Download/Radius/3.9.3/Freeradius-users-example.txt

An example of a ProVision account configuration for the user file on a Freeradius system for version 4.0 and greater: http://cloud.6connect.com/Download/Radius/4.0/Freeradius-users-example.txt

Example: To add a new radius user, edit the 'users' file found at /etc/raddb/users and add a block like:

Setting up a RADIUS account
bobber  Cleartext-Password := "hello"
        6connect_user_group = "Global Admins,Group 2,Group 1,Group Nonexistant"

Note 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:

#﹥radtest test test 50.23.215.162 6connect
  Sending Access-Request of id 179 to 50.23.215.162 port 1812
  User-Name = "test"
  User-Password = "test"
  NAS-IP-Address = 10.124.47.6
  NAS-Port = 0
  Message-Authenticator = 0x00000000000000000000000000000000
rad_recv: Access-Accept packet from host 50.23.215.162 port 1812, id=179, length=68
  priv_admin = 1
  priv_ipam_c = 1
  priv_ipam_m = 1
  priv_ipam_d = 1

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

﹤insert example﹥

Configure ProVision for Radius Authentication

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

  • Log into 6connect ProVision
  • Go to Admin -﹥ General Settings -﹥ 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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