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Chapter 9

The 

 group includes the following configuration options:

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Authentication—When a serial port is configured for the 
Console Management or TCP Sockets profile, the user can be 
authenticated either locally in the IOLAN user profile or 
externally. This option configures the external authentication 
server. See 

 for more information.

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SSH—This configuration window configures the SSH server in 
the IOLAN. See 

 for more information.

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SSL/TLS—This configuration window configures global 
SSL/TLS settings, which can be overridden on the serial port 
level. See 

 for more information.

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VPN—This configuration window configures the Virtual Personal Network (VPN) IPsec and 
L2TP/IPsec tunnel parameters. See 

 for more information.

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Services—This configuration window is used to enable/disabled client and daemon services that 
run in the IOLAN. See 

 for more information.

Authentication can be handled by the IOLAN or through an external authentication server. 
Authentication is different from authorization, which can restrict a user’s access to the network 
(although this can be done through the concept of creating sessions for a user, see 

 for more information). Authentication ensures that the user is defined within the 

authentication database—with the exception of using the 

 authentication option under 

, which can accept any user ID as long as the user knows the configured password.

For external authentication, the IOLAN supports RADIUS, Kerberos, LDAP, TACACS+, SecurID, 
and NIS. You can specify a primary authentication method and a secondary authentication method. If 
the primary authentication method fails (cannot connect to the server or authentication fails), the 
secondary authentication method is tried (unless you enable the 

 option, in 

which case the secondary authentication method will be tried only when the IOLAN cannot 
communicate with the primary authentication host). This allows you to specify two different 
authentication methods. If you do specify two different authentication methods, the user will be 
prompted for his/her username once, but will be prompted for a password for each authentication 
method tried. For example, user Alfred’s user ID is maintained in the secondary authentication 
database, therefore, he will be prompted for his password twice, because he is not in the primary 
authentication database. 

Unlike the other external authentication methods, RADIUS and TACACS+ can also send back 

 and 

 parameters that are used for the duration of the connection. Therefore, any parameters 

configured by RADIUS or TACACS+ will override the same parameters configured in the IOLAN. 
See 

 for more information.