Concept Guide

Table Of Contents
RADIUS Authentication
Dell EMC Networking OS supports RADIUS for user authentication (text password) at login and can be specified as one of the
login authentication methods in the aaa authentication login command.
When configuring AAA authorization, you can configure to limit the attributes of services available to a user. When you enable
authorization, the network access server uses configuration information from the user profile to issue the user's session. The
users access is limited based on the configuration attributes. RADIUS exec-authorization stores a user-shell profile and that
is applied during user login. You may name the relevant named-lists with either a unique name or the default name. When you
enable authorization by the RADIUS server, the server returns the following information to the client:
Idle Time
ACL Configuration Information
Auto-Command
Privilege Levels
After gaining authorization for the first time, you may configure these attributes.
NOTE: RADIUS authentication/authorization is done for every login. There is no difference between first-time login and
subsequent logins.
Idle Time
Every session line has its own idle-time. If the idle-time value is not changed, the default value of 30 minutes is used.
RADIUS specifies idle-time allow for a user during a session before timeout. When a user logs in, the lower of the two idle-time
values (configured or default) is used. The idle-time value is updated if both of the following happens:
The administrator changes the idle-time of the line on which the user has logged in.
The idle-time is lower than the RADIUS-returned idle-time.
ACL Configuration Information
The RADIUS server can specify an ACL. If an ACL is configured on the RADIUS server, and if that ACL is present, the user may
be allowed access based on that ACL.
If the ACL is absent, authorization fails, and a message is logged indicating this.
RADIUS can specify an ACL for the user if both of the following are true:
If an ACL is absent.
If there is a very long delay for an entry, or a denied entry because of an ACL, and a message is logged.
NOTE:
The ACL name must be a string. Only standard ACLs in authorization (both RADIUS and TACACS) are supported.
Authorization is denied in cases using Extended ACLs.
Auto-Command
You can configure the system through the RADIUS server to automatically execute a command when you connect to a specific
line.
The auto-command command is executed when the user is authenticated and before the prompt appears to the user.
Automatically execute a command.
auto-command
Privilege Levels
Through the RADIUS server, you can configure a privilege level for the user to enter into when they connect to a session.
This value is configured on the client system.
Set a privilege level.
privilege level
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