Alcatel-Lucent 8950 AAA User Manual
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Using the Policy Wizard
Using the 8950 AAA Policy Assistant in Server
Management Tool
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365-360-001R6.0
Issue 1, December 2008
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Figure 9-5 Authentication Access Requests Panel in the Policy Wizard
To determine a method for authenticating users, select an Authentication Type from the
list that appears within the Authentication Types pane, as shown in
. This pane
contains four categories of Authentication Types as follows:
•
Password from User profile
•
External Authentications
•
Automatic Authentications
•
EAP Authentication
The actual options available in this panel are dependent on the choice you made for your
user profile source.
lists the options with descriptions.
Table 9-1 Authentication Types
Option
Description
Password from User profile
Select an option from this section if this
policy uses text passwords stored in the user
profile
Allow any of the following
Verifies the password in the user profile
matches with the passwords in the user
request. Passwords can be any of the
following formats: Plain text, Secure Hash
Algorithm (SHA), salted SHA, Message
Digest 5 (MD5), Salted MD5, or Message
Digest 4 (MD4)