Chapter 35 User/Group
UAG Series User’s Guide
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The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 179
Configuration > Object > User/Group > User > Add/Edit
LABEL
DESCRIPTION
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
This field displays the types of user accounts the UAG uses:
•
admin
- this user can look at and change the configuration of the UAG
•
limited-admin
- this user can look at the configuration of the UAG but not to
change it
•
ext-user
- this user account is maintained in a remote server, such as RADIUS. See
for more information about this type.
•
ext-group-user
- this user account is maintained in a remote server, such as
RADIUS. See
Ext-Group-User Accounts on page 400
for more information about this
type.
•
guest-manager
- this user can log in via the web configurator login screen and
create dynamic guest accounts using the
Account Generator
screen that pops up.
See
for detailed information about the
Account
Generator
screen.
•
pre-subscriber
- this user has access to the UAG’s services but cannot look at the
configuration.
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 RADIUS 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
If you want the system to use default settings, select
Use Default Settings
. 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
If you select
Use Default Settings
in the
User Settings
field, the default lease time is
shown.
If you select
Use Manual Settings
, you need to 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.
Reauthentication
Time
If you select
Use Default Settings
in the
User Settings
field, the default lease time is
shown.
If you select
Use Manual Settings
, you need to type the number of minutes this user
can be logged into the UAG in one session before the user has to log in again. You can
specify 1 to 1440 minutes. You can enter 0 to make the number of minutes unlimited.
Unlike
Lease Time
, the user has no opportunity to renew the session without logging
out.
