3com WX1200 User Manual

Assigns an authorization attribute in the local database on the WX switch 
to a user who is authenticated by a MAC address. 

(To assign authorization attributes through RADIUS, see the 
documentation for your RADIUS server.)

Syntax —

 set mac-user mac-addr attr attribute-name value

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 — MAC address of the user, in hexadecimal numbers 

separated by colons (:). You can omit leading zeros.

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 — Name and value of an attribute you are 

using to authorize the MAC user for a particular service or session 
characteristic. For a list of authorization attributes and values that you 
can assign to local users, see Table 44. 

Table 44   Authentication Attributes for Local Users

encryption-type

Type of encryption 
required for access by 
the client. Clients who 
attempt to use an 
unauthorized encryption 
method are rejected.

One of the following numbers that 
identifies an encryption algorithm:

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1—AES_CCM (Advanced 
Encryption Standard using Counter 
with CBC-MAC)

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2—Reserved

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4—TKIP (Temporal Key Integrity 
Protocol)

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8—WEP_104 (the default) 
(Wired-Equivalent Privacy protocol 
using 104 bits of key strength)

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16—WEP_40 (Wired-Equivalent 
Privacy protocol using 40 bits of 
key strength)

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32—NONE (no encryption)

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64—Static WEP

In addition to these values, you can 
specify a sum of them for a 
combination of allowed encryption 
types. For example, to specify 
WEP_104 and WEP_40, use 24.