Chapter7.Configuring User Accounts


Chapter 7. Configuring User Accounts

In this chapter, you learn the following topics:

  • Adding users to the database

  • User Changeable Passwords

  • Authenticating users to a Windows NT/2000 database

  • Advanced configurations

Access Control Server (ACS) has the capability to authenticate users against numerous databases. From token servers to Active Directory servers, ACS provides the flexibility of integration into an existing environment, or the power to use its own database for user authentication. Cisco Secure can keep a record of all users locally, regardless of whether you configured the user there.

Note that the user database might exist on a Windows 2000 server. ACS checks the Windows server for user credentials and adds the user locally to ACS. The user entry that is learned from the Windows 2000 database is still authenticated against the Windows database. Adding the username to ACS is done because all users are authorized against the ACS database when authorization is present.

In this chapter, you add a user to your ACS database. The user profile that you configure in ACS allows you to configure several parameters that were discussed in Chapter 2, "TACACS+ and RADIUS." In this chapter, you actually perform the task of configuring a user and adding some advanced parameters.




Cisco Access Control Security(c) AAA Administrative Services
Cisco Access Control Security: AAA Administration Services
ISBN: 1587051249
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2006
Pages: 173

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