Configuring Properties for a User Group

Note

If you want to close a connection and prevent a user or group from reconnecting automatically, you must select the Authenticate after network interruption setting. Otherwise, users immediately reconnect without being prompted for their credentials. For more information, see “Managing Client Connections” on page 133.

Configuring Secure Access Client for single sign-on

By default, Windows users open a connection by launching the Secure Access Client from the desktop. You can specify that the Secure Access Client start automatically after the user logs onto Windows by enabling single sign-on. Users’ Windows logon credentials are passed to the Firebox SSL VPN Gateway for authentication.

Enable single sign-on only if users’ computers are logging on to your organization’s domain. If single sign-on is enabled and a user connects from a computer that is not on your domain, the user is prompted to log on.

Note

Users must be logged on as a Power User or be a member of the Power Users group to use single sign- on to Windows.

If the Secure Access Client is configured for single sign-on with Windows, it automatically starts after the user logs on to Windows. The user’s Windows logon credentials are passed to the Firebox SSL VPN Gate- way for authentication. Enabling single sign-on for the Secure Access Client facilitates operations on the remote computer such as installation scripts and automatic drive mapping

To configure Secure Access Client for single sign-on

1Click the Access Policy Manager tab.

2In the left pane, right-click a group and then click Properties.

3On the General tab, under Session Options, click Enable single sign-on.

4Click OK.

Note

If you configured double-source authentication, you cannot use single sign-on.

Enabling domain logon scripts

In your network, you may have logon scripts that run on the client computer after a successful log on. If logon scripts are enabled on the Firebox SSL VPN Gateway, after authentication, the Firebox SSL VPN Gateway establishes the connection, obtains Windows logon scripts from the domain controller, and then runs the logon scripts to perform operations such as automatic drive mapping. If the domain con- troller cannot be contacted, the Firebox SSL VPN Gateway connection is completed but the logon scripts are not run.

Note

Clients that want to use single sign-on to Windows and logon scripts must be logged on as a Power User or be a member of the Power Users group. The Firebox SSL VPN Gateway can run logon scripts that are defined in the user’s Windows profile. Logon scripts that are defined in Active Directory are not

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