Adding user names and configuring authentication

Users and authentication

 

 

This chapter describes:

Setting authentication timeout

Adding user names and configuring authentication

Configuring RADIUS support

Configuring LDAP support

Configuring user groups

Setting authentication timeout

To set authentication timeout:

1Go to System > Config > Options.

2Set Auth Timeout to control how long authenticated firewall connections can remain idle before users must authenticate again to get access through the firewall.

The default authentication timeout is 15 minutes.

Adding user names and configuring authentication

Use the following procedures to add user names and configure authentication.

This section describes:

Adding user names and configuring authentication

Deleting user names from the internal database

Adding user names and configuring authentication

1Go to User > Local.

2Select New to add a new user name.

3Enter the user name.

The user name can contain numbers (0-9), uppercase and lowercase letters (A-Z, a-z), and the special characters - and _. Other special characters and spaces are not allowed.

4Select one of the following authentication configurations:

Disable

Prevent this user from authenticating.

Password

Enter the password that this user must use to authenticate. The password

 

should be at least six characters long. The password can contain numbers

 

(0-9), uppercase and lowercase letters (A-Z, a-z), and the special characters

 

- and _. Other special characters and spaces are not allowed.

LDAP

Require the user to authenticate to an LDAP server. Select the name of the

 

LDAP server to which the user must authenticate. You can only select an

 

LDAP server that has been added to the FortiGate LDAP configuration. See

 

“Configuring LDAP support” on page 177.

Radius

Require the user to authenticate to a RADIUS server. Select the name of the

 

RADIUS server to which the user must authenticate. You can only select a

 

RADIUS server that has been added to the FortiGate RADIUS configuration.

 

See “Configuring RADIUS support” on page 176.

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