Configuring Properties for a User Group

Choosing a portal page for a group

By default, all users log on to the Firebox SSL VPN Gateway using the Secure Access Client from the default portal page or by downloading and installing the Secure Access Client on their computer. You can load custom portal pages on the Firebox SSL VPN Gateway, as described in “Using Portal Pages” on page 38, and then select a portal page for each group. This enables you to control which of the Firebox SSL VPN Gateway clients are available by group.

Note

Disabling portal page authentication on the Global Policies page overrides the Portal Page setting for all groups. For more information, see “Enabling Portal Page Authentication” on page 41.

To specify a portal page for a group

1On the Access Policy Manager tab, under User Groups, right-click a group and click Properties.

2On the Gateway Portal tab, under Portal Configuration, click Use Custom Portal Page.

3In Use this custom portal page, select the page.

4Click OK.

Client certificate criteria configuration

To specify criteria that client certificates must meet, use a Boolean expression. To belong to a group, the user must meet the certificate criteria in addition to passing all other authentication rules that are con- figured for that group. For example, the following criteria requires that the subject field of the client cer- tificate provided by a user has the Organization Unit (OU) set to Accounting and the Common Name (CN) attribute set to a value matching the user’s local user name on the Firebox SSL VPN Gateway. client_cert_end_user_subject_organizational_unit=“Accouting” and user- name=client_cert_end_user_subject_common_name.

Valid operators for the client certificate are as follows: and logical AND

= equality test

Valid constants for the criteria are: true logical TRUE

Valid variables for the criteria are:

username local user name on the Firebox SSL VPN Gateway

client_cert_end_user_subject_common_name CN attribute of the Subject of the client certificate client_cert_end_user_subject_organizational_unit OU attribute of the Subject of the client certificate client_cert_end_user_subject_organization O attribute of the Subject of the client certificate

Values for the client certificate criteria on the User Groups tab require quotation marks around them to work. Correct and incorrect examples are:

The Boolean expression

client_cert_end_user_subject_common_name=“clients.gateways.watchguard.com” is valid and it works.

The Boolean expression

client_cert_end_user_subject_common_name=clients.gateways.watchguard.com is not valid and does not work

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