Alcatel-Lucent 8950 AAA User Manual page 149

Using the 8950 AAA Policy Assistant in Server
Management Tool
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Figure 9-5 Authentication Access Requests Panel in the Policy Wizard
To determine a method for authenticating users, select an Authentication Type from the
list that appears within the Authentication Types pane, as shown in
contains four categories of Authentication Types as follows:
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The actual options available in this panel are dependent on the choice you made for your
user profile source.
Table 9-1 Authentication Types
Option
Password from User profile
Allow any of the following
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Password from User profile
External Authentications
Automatic Authentications
EAP Authentication
Table 9-1 lists the options with descriptions.
Description
Select an option from this section if this
policy uses text passwords stored in the user
profile
Verifies the password in the user profile
matches with the passwords in the user
request. Passwords can be any of the
following formats: Plain text, Secure Hash
Algorithm (SHA), salted SHA, Message
Digest 5 (MD5), Salted MD5, or Message
Digest 4 (MD4)
Using the Policy Wizard
Figure 9-5. This pane
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