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RSA RADIUS Server 6.1 Administrator’s Guide Glossary 99
Glossary
802.1X The IEEE 802.1X standard defines a mechanism that allows a supplicant (client)
to connect to a wireless access point or wired switch (authenticator) so that the
supplicant can provide authentication credentials that can be verified by an
authentication server.
AAA Authentication, authorization, and accounting.
accounting The process of recording and aggregating resource use statistics and log files for a
user, connection session, or function for billing, system diagnosis, and usage
planning.
AP Access Point. A device that serves as a communication hub to connect 802.1X
wireless clients to a wired network.
attribute RADIUS attributes carry the specific authentication, authorization, and
accounting.
authentication The process of verifying the identity of a person or file system and whether the
person is allowed on a protected network.
authentication
server A back-end database server that verifies, from the credentials provided by an
access client, whether the access client is authorized to use network resources.
authorization The process of controlling the network access, such as privileges or time limits,
that the user can exercise on the protected network.
AVP Attribute-value pair. An attribute and its corresponding value.; for example,
User-Name = admin .