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Changing the MAC Authorization Password for RADIUS

When you enable MAC authentication, the client does not supply a regular username or password. The
MAC address of the user's device is extracted from frames received from the device.
To authenticate and authorize MAC users via RADIUS, you must configure a single predefined password
for MAC users, which is called the outbound authorization password. The same password is used for all
MAC user entries in the RADIUS database. Set this password by typing the following command:
set radius server server-name author-password password
The default password is dlink.
Note: Before setting the outbound authorization password for a RADIUS server, you must have set the
address for the RADIUS server. For more information, see "Configuring RADIUS Servers".
For example, the following command sets the outbound authorization password for MAC users on
server bigbird to h00per:
DWS-1008# set radius server bigbird author-password h00per
success: change accepted.
Note: A MAC address must be dash-delimited in the RADIUS database - for example,
00-00-01-03-04-05. However, the MSS always displays colon-delimited MAC addresses.
If the MAC address is in the database, MSS uses the VLAN attribute and other attributes associated
with it for user authorization. Otherwise, MSS tries the fallthru authentication type, which can be
last-resort, Web, or none.
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