Configuring Resources for a User Group

•Kiosk resources that define how the user can log on and which file shares and applications are accessible to the user when logged on. If the user is allowed to use the Firefox Web browser in kiosk mode, the Web address the user is allowed to use is also defined.

•End point resources and policies that define the required and optional parameters that must be on the user’s computer when logging on.

If a user belongs to more than one group, group policies are applied to the user based on the group pri- orities set on the Group Priority tab, as described in “Setting the Priority of Groups”.

Adding Users to Multiple Groups

When a user is a member of multiple groups, some group settings are unioned together. These settings are:

•Network Resources

•Application Policies

•Kiosk Resources

•End Point Policies

Settings that are not unioned are based on group priority. These include:

•Authenticating after network interruption or on system resume

•Enabling single sign-on

•Running logon scripts

•Session time-out

•Split DNS

•Portal page authentication

Exceptions to the unionized settings are:

•Deny applications without policies. If any of the groups that a user is a member of has the Deny applications without policies check box selected, the user inherits that setting.

•IP pooling. Users assume the IP address from the highest priority group that has IP pools enabled.

•Inherit Default group settings. If any of the groups that a user is a part of has the Inherit properties from the Default Group check box selected, the user inherits that setting.

Allowing and denying network resources and application policies

By default, all network resources and application policies are allowed. When you deny one resource group, all other resource groups are denied automatically and the network access for the user group is controlled only through its ACL.

The Firebox SSL VPN Gateway interprets allow or deny as follows:

•The Firebox SSL VPN Gateway denies access to any network resource or application policy that is not explicitly allowed. Thus, if you want to provide a particular user group with access to only one resource group, you allow access only to that resource group.

•Deny rules take precedence over allow rules. This enables you to allow access to a range of resources and to also deny access to selected resources within that range. For example, you might want to allow a group access to a resource group that includes 10.20.10.0/24, but need to deny that user group access to 10.20.10.30. To handle this, you create a resource group that includes 10.20.10.30. Access to that resource is denied unless you specifically allow it.

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