Radius Service Types; User Account Authentication Screen; Figure 156 User Account Authentication; Table 111 Service Type To Privilege Level Mapping - ZyXEL Communications MSC1000G User Manual

14.8 RADIUS Service Types

When you set the system to authenticate users using an external RADIUS server, the system
assigns a privilege level to the login account based on the service type information received
from the RADIUS server after the authentication is successful.
The following table shows the service type and privilege level mappings.

Table 111 Service Type to Privilege Level Mapping

SERVICE TYPE
login
nas-prompt
admin

14.9 User Account Authentication Screen

Click Sys > User Account from the navigation panel and then the Authentication tab to open
the following screen. Use this screen to set up how the system authenticate administrators
when they log in.

Figure 156 User Account Authentication

The following table describes the labels in this screen.

Table 112 User Account Authentication

LABEL
Authentication
Mode
IP
Port
Secret
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PRIVILEGE LEVEL
low
medium
high
DESCRIPTION
Use this field to set which database the system uses to authenticate a user.
Select local to have the system use the internal user account database.
Select radius to have the system use an external RADIUS server.
Select local first and then radius to have the system check the internal user
account database first, and then the external RADIUS server if there is no match.
Type the IP address of the RADIUS server.
Type the RADIUS server's listening port number. The MSC uses the default of
1812 if you do not specify a port.
Type the password for the RADIUS server.
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