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AT-WL2411 Installation and User’s Guide
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Setting Up Logins
To ensure login security for configuring or maintaining the access
points, you should either use a password server (typically a RADIUS
server) or immediately change the default user name and password.
To use the RADIUS password server, you must have the following:
❑ a password server (typically a RADIUS server) on the network that
contains the user name/password database.
Or, the access point has an internal RADIUS password server
that you can use to authenticate the end devices (typically
PCs). For help, see Configuring the Internal RADIUS Server
on page 130.
❑ an access point, which is the RADIUS client, on the network.
If you enable RADIUS authorization, a user must enter a user name
and password, which is sent through the access point to the
RADIUS server. The server compares the user name and password
to its list of authorized user names and passwords. If a match is
found, the server returns an access-accept packet and the user is
logged into the access point with read/write privileges.
If no RADIUS server (#1 or #2) is available when the user attempts a
login, the Service password is checked. If the user name and pass-
word do not match the Service Password, the login fails.
Note
Each time the service password login attempt fails, the process may
take up to eight seconds.
If you do not want to use RADIUS authorization, you should change the
default login user name and password. You may also want to change the
read only password.
To set up logins: