RSA Security 6.1 manual Glossary, Aaa

Glossary

802.1X	The IEEE 802.1X standard defines a mechanism that allows a supplicant (client)
	to connect to a wireless access point or wired switch (authenticator) so that the
	supplicant can provide authentication credentials that can be verified by an
	authentication server.
AAA	Authentication, authorization, and accounting.
accounting	The process of recording and aggregating resource use statistics and log files for a
	user, connection session, or function for billing, system diagnosis, and usage
	planning.
AP	Access Point. A device that serves as a communication hub to connect 802.1X
	wireless clients to a wired network.
attribute	RADIUS attributes carry the specific authentication, authorization, and
	accounting.
authentication	The process of verifying the identity of a person or file system and whether the
	person is allowed on a protected network.
authentication	A back-end database server that verifies, from the credentials provided by an
server	access client, whether the access client is authorized to use network resources.
authorization	The process of controlling the network access, such as privileges or time limits,
	that the user can exercise on the protected network.
AVP	Attribute-value pair. An attribute and its corresponding value.; for example,
	User-Name = admin.

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