Watchguard SSL 1000, User Manual

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Scenario 1: Configuring LDAP Authentication and Authorization
160 Firebox SSL VPN Gateway
Before reading the examples in this chapter, you should become familiar with the settings on three tabs
of the Administration Tool. The settings on these tabs control user access to internal network resources:
• Global Cluster Policies
• Authentication
• Access Policy Manager
The three user access configuration examples discussed in this chapter are:
• “Scenario 1: Configuring LDAP Authentication and Authorization” on page 160 . This step-by-step
example illustrates how an administrator might provide access to internal network resources in
an LDAP environment.
• “Scenario 2: Creating Guest Accounts Using the Local Users List” on page 169 . This example
extends the scenario for configuring LDAP authentication and authorization to illustrate the
concept of local users.
• “Scenario 3: Configuring Local Authorization for Local Users” on page 172 . This example
illustrates the concept of local authorization by slightly altering the configuration discussed in
the scenario for creating guest accounts using the Local Users list.
Scenario 1: Configuring LDAP Authentication and Authorization
This example shows how an administrator might use the settings in the Administration Tool to config-
ure user access in the following example scenario:
• The organization uses a single LDAP directory as the user repository
• Remote users working for the Sales department must have access to an email server, a Web
conference server, a Sales Web application, and several file servers residing on the internal
network
• Remote users working for the Engineering department must have access to an email server, a
Web conference server, and several file servers residing on the internal network
• Three email servers are operating in the internal network, but the administrator wants remote
users to access only one of these email servers
To configure access to the internal network resources in this scenario, the administrator completes two
basic tasks:
• Preparing for the LDAP authentication and authorization configuration
• Configuring the Firebox SSL VPN Gateway to support access to the internal network resources
Each of these tasks is discussed below.
Preparing for the LDAP Authentication and Authorization Configuration
Preparing for the LDAP authentication and authorization configuration is the first of two tasks the
administrator performs in the scenario for configuring LDAP authentication and authorization.
In this task, the administrator assembles the information needed to configure the Firebox SSL VPN Gate-
way to support LDAP authentication and authorization.
This task includes these procedures:
• Determining the internal networks that include the needed resources