System Properties>PIX
Administration>Authentication
The Authentication panel allows you to enable or disable required authentication, authorizations, and accounting
(AAA) verifications.
The following sections are included in this Help topic:
Field Descriptions
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Enabling Forced AAA Authentication
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Enabling AAA Authentication for Specific Connections
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Applying Changes to the PIX Firewall
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The Authentication panel allows you to enable or disable AAA access to the PIX Firewall via the serial console
or different types of network connections, and set other administrative access policies, such as specifying that
AAA authentication must be from a specific server group. Refer to
passwords
,
CLI console sessions
,
Tools>CLI
.
Field Descriptions
The Authentication panel provides the following fields:
Require AAA Authentication to allow use of privileged mode commands.
Enable—Forces AAA authentication from a server group before you can access enable mode on the
PIX Firewall. This option allows up to three tries to access the PIX Firewall console. If this number
is exceeded, an access denied message appears.
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Sever Group—Provides a drop-down menu from which you can choose a server group to force
AAA authentication.
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Require AAA Authorization for console connections to the PIX for the following types of
connections:
HTTPS/PDM
—Requires AAA authentication when you start an HTTPS connection to the PIX
Firewall console. You can monitor PDM sessions using
Monitoring>PDM Users.
❍
Serial
—Requires AAA authentication when you connect to the PIX Firewall console via the serial
console cable. PIX Firewall prompts you for your username and password before you can enter
commands. If the authentication server is offline, wait until the console login request times out. You
can then access the console with the pix username and the enable password.
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SSH
—Requires AAA authentication when you start a Secure Shell (SSH) connection to the PIX
Firewall console. This option allows up to three tries to access the PIX Firewall console. If this
number is exceeded, an access denied message appears. This option requests a username and
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