Configuring Animate Authentication
As discussed previously, AAA affidavit is about acclimated to either control
access to a arrangement accessory (for example, a PIX firewall) or to ascendancy admission to
network assets through the arrangement accessory (for example,Web casework through
a PIX firewall).This area discusses the use of the PIX firewall AAA mechanisms
to ascendancy admission to the PIX firewall itself via the animate port,Telnet,
HTTP, or SSH.The accepted accomplish all-important to configure AAA affidavit for
firewall admission are:
1. Configure the AAA affidavit database.This database can reside
locally on the firewall, or can be authentic on a RADIUS or TACACS+
server.
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2. Specify the methods of firewall admission (serial port,Telnet, SSH, HTTP)
and the AAA affidavit database that should be used.
WARNING
When configuring animate authentication, do not save your configuration
until you are abiding it works. If you are bound out due to a mistake,
you can usually balance admission by artlessly restarting the PIX firewall from
the agreement that is adored in beam memory.