Cisco Systems 3.3 About User Databases

Chapter 7 User Management
About User Databases
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From within the User Setup section, you can perform the following tasks:
•View a list of all users in the CiscoSecure user database.
•Find a user.
•Add a user.
•Assign the user to a group, including Voice-over-IP (VoIP) Groups.
•Edit user account information.
•Establish or change user authentication type.
•Configure callback information for the user.
•Set network access restrictions (NARs) for the user.
•Configure Advanced Settings.
•Set the maximum number of concurrent sessions (Max Sessions) for the user.
•Disable or re-enable the user account.
•Delete the user.
About User Databases
Cisco Secure ACS authenticates users against one of several possible databases,
including its CiscoSecure user database. Regardless of which database you
configure Cisco Secure ACS to use when authenticating a user, all users have
accounts within the CiscoSecure user database, and authorization of users is
always performed against the user records in the CiscoSecure user database. The
following list details the basic user databases used and provides links to greater
details on each:
•CiscoSecure user database—Authenticates a user from the local
CiscoSecure user database. For more information, see CiscoSecure User
Database, page 13-2.
Tip The following authentication types appear in the HTML interface only when the
corresponding external user database has been configured in the Database
Configuration area of the External User Databases section.