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Chapter 4

Configuration via the Command Line Interface

4.2 Peer: Authentication Attribute

What is ... Two main methods for user authentication are supported in the SpeedTouch™:

pre-shared key

certificates

The user authentication parameters used for IKE negotiations are bundled in a descriptor with a symbolic name.

This is called the Authentication Attribute. For pre-shared key authentication, this attribute holds the pre-shared key. For authentication with certificates it simply indicates the authentication method. The Authentication Attribute parameters are explained in section 4.2.1.

How is it used An Authentication Attribute is required as one of the parameters to successfully create an operational peer. The peer refers to the Authentication attribute by its symbolic name. So, as an initial preparatory step to define an operational peer, a valid Authentication Attribute is created.

In this section The following topics are discussed in this section:

Topic	Page
4.2.1 Authentication Attribute Parameters	105
4.2.2 List all Authentication Attributes	106
4.2.3 Create a New Authentication Attribute	107
4.2.4 Set or Modify the Authentication Attribute Parameters	108
4.2.5 Delete an Authentication attribute	109

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