Command Reference Guide

3Com Router 3000 Ethernet Family
Command Reference Guide
Chapter 1 AAA and RADIUS/HWTACACS Protocol
Configuration Commands
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Example
# Display information on the buffered stop-accounting requests between 0:0:0 and
23:59:59 on August 31, 2002.
<3Com> display stop-accounting-buffer time-range 0:0:0-08/31/2002
23:59:59-08/31/2002
Total find 0 record
1.2.9 key
Syntax
key { accounting | authentication } string
undo key { accounting | authentication }
View
RADIUS view
Parameter
accounting: Configures a shared key for encrypting RADIUS accounting packets.
authentication: Configures a shared key for encrypting RADIUS
authentication/authorization packets.
string: Shared key, a character string not exceeding 16 characters and excluding “/”, “: ”,
“*”, “? ”, “<” and “>”. By default, the key is “huawei”.
Description
Use the key command to configure a shared key for encrypting RADIUS
authentication/authorization or accounting packets.
Use the undo key command to restore the default shared key.
The RADIUS client (router system) and RADIUS server use MD5 algorithm to encrypt
the exchanged packets. The two ends verify packets using a shared key. Only when the
same key is used can both ends accept the packets from each other and give
responses. Therefore, it is necessary to ensure that the same key is set on the router
and the RADIUS server. If the authentication/authorization and accounting are
performed on two server devices with different shared keys, you must set one shared
key for each.
Related command: primary accounting, primary authentication, and radius
scheme.
Example
# In the RADIUS scheme “huawei”, set the shared key used for encrypting
authentication/authorization packets to “hello”.