Fortress Technologies ecure Wireless Access Bridge User Manual

Fortress Bridge: Administration

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on the 

 frame of the 

 screen.

On a Fortress Bridge-secured network, user authentication can 
be used by itself or combined with device authentication. The 
options that determine whether device authentication is 
enabled are also configured globally, in the 

 frame of the 

 screen.

 Refer to

Section 3.6.6.1 and

for instructions on glo-
bally enabling 

 au-

thentication and to
Section 3.6.6.4 for in-
structions on enabling
device authentication.

The maximum number of unsuccessful authentication attempts 
a user will be allowed before being locked out is another global 
setting; the same setting configures the maximum number of 
times devices can unsuccessfully attempt to authenticate on 
the network. (Refer to Section 3.6.6.5 for detailed instructions.)

If a user exceeds the maximum allowable retry attempts to log 
on to the Bridge-secured network, s/he will be locked out until 
you reset the session.

 Refer to

Section 3.6.6.7 for

detailed instructions on
configuring default user
authentication settings.

While idle timeout and session timeout settings can be 
individually configured for each user, the default values for 
these settings are determined by the 

 

set in the 

 frame of the 

 screen.

User authentication on the Fortress Bridge requires the usual 
settings to identify, track and manage access for each user on 
the Fortress-secured network:

‹

 - identifies the user on the network—from 1 to 16 

alphanumeric characters—required.

‹

 - associates the person, by name, with his/her 

user account—up to 64 alphanumeric characters, including 
spaces, dashes, dots and underscores—optional.

‹

 - establishes the credentials the 

user must key in to access his/her user account—from 4 to 
16 alphanumeric characters, including shifted numeral-key 
symbols—required.

‹

 - sets the amount of time the user’s device can 

be idle on the network before it must renegotiate keys with 
the Bridge.

 is set in minutes, between 0 and 9999. A value 

of zero disables idle timeout for that user (his device can be 
idle indefinitely without timing out). If you enabled 

 

authentication while leaving the settings under 

 (Section 3.6.6.7) at their 

defaults, the 

 value in the 

 frame will 

be at 30 minutes.