ZyXEL Communications 1000 Manual De Usuario

Chapter 40 User/Group

ZyWALL USG 1000 User’s Guide

The following table describes the labels in this screen.  

Table 185   Configuration > User/Group > User > Add

User Name

Type the user name for this user account. You may use 1-31 
alphanumeric characters, underscores(

_

), or dashes (-), but the first 

character cannot be a number. This value is case-sensitive. User 
names have to be different than user group names, and some words 
are reserved. See 

.

User Type

Select what type of user this is. Choices are:

• admin - this user can look at and change the configuration of the 

ZyWALL

• limited-admin - this user can look at the configuration of the 

ZyWALL but not to change it

• user - this user has access to the ZyWALL’s services but cannot 

look at the configuration

• guest - this user has access to the ZyWALL’s services but cannot 

look at the configuration

• ext-user - this user account is maintained in a remote server, such 

as RADIUS or LDAP. See 

 for more 

information about this type.

• ext-group-user - this user account is maintained in a remote 

server, such as RADIUS or LDAP. See 

 for more information about this type.

Password

This field is not available if you select the ext-user or ext-group-
user type.

Enter the password of this user account. It can consist of 4 - 31 
alphanumeric characters.

Retype

This field is not available if you select the ext-user or ext-group-
user type.

Group Identifier

This field is available for a ext-group-user type user account.

Specify the value of the AD or LDAP server’s Group Membership 
Attribute that identifies the group to which this user belongs. 

Associated AAA 
Server Object

This field is available for a ext-group-user type user account. Select 
the AAA server to use to authenticate this account’s users.

Description

Enter the description of each user, if any. You can use up to 60 
printable ASCII characters. Default descriptions are provided. 

Authentication 
Timeout Settings

This field is not available if you select the ext-group-user type.

If you want to set authentication timeout to a value other than the 
default settings, select Use Manual Settings then fill your preferred 
values in the fields that follow.

Lease Time

This field is not available if you select the ext-group-user type.

Enter the number of minutes this user has to renew the current 
session before the user is logged out. You can specify 1 to 1440 
minutes. You can enter 0 to make the number of minutes unlimited. 
Admin users renew the session every time the main screen refreshes 
in the Web Configurator. Access users can renew the session by 
clicking the Renew button on their screen. If you allow access users 
to renew time automatically (see 

), the users 

can select this check box on their screen as well. In this case, the 
session is automatically renewed before the lease time expires.