Nortel Networks 4050 User Manual

250 Chapter 6 Configuring authentication

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where 

 is an integer in the range 1 to 63 that uniquely identifies the 

authentication method in the Nortel SNAS 4050 domain. If you do not specify the 

auth ID

 in the command, you are prompted for it.

When you first create the method for the domain, you must enter the 
authentication ID. After you have created the method and defined a name for it, 
you can use either the ID or the name to access the method for configuration.

You can perform the following configuration tasks:

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The command to create the authentication ID launches a wizard. When prompted, 
enter the following information. For more information about the parameters, see 

. You can later modify all settings for the specific LDAP configuration 

 and 

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authentication type — options are 

radius|ldap|local

. Enter 

.

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authentication method name (

auth name

) — a string that specifies a name 

for the method. After you have defined a name for the method, you can use 
either the method name or the 

auth ID

 to access the Authentication menu. 

In future releases of the Nortel SNAS 4050 software, you will be able to 
reference this string in a client filter, so that authentication to the server in 
question becomes a condition for access rights for a group.

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IP address of the LDAP server.

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port on which the LDAP server is listening — the port number configured on 
the LDAP server to specify the port used by the service. The default is 389.

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search base entry — the Distinguished Name (DN) that points to one of the 
following:

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the entry that is one level up from the user entries (does not require 
isdBindDN and isdBindPassword)