Allied Telesis AT-WL2411 - Manual (Page 143)

AT-WL2411 Version 1.80 Installation and User’s Guide
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Setting Up Logins
To ensure login security for configuring or maintaining the access
points, you should either use a password server or immediately change
the default user name and password.
To use the password server, you must have:
❑ A password server on the network that contains the user
name/password database. For help, see Configuring the Access
Point to Use a Password Server on page 144.
❑ Access points, which are the RADIUS clients.
If you enable RADIUS authorization, when a user uses a web browser or
telnet to access the access point configuration screens, the user will
need to enter a user name and password. This login is sent through the
RADIUS client to the RADIUS server. The server compares the user name
and password to its list of authorized user names and passwords. If a
match is found, the server returns an access-accept frame and the user is
logged into the access point with read/write privileges.
If neither RADIUS server #1 nor RADIUS server #2 is available when the
user attempts a login and the Allow Service Password check box is
checked, the service password is checked. If the login does not match
the service password, the login fails.
Note
Each time the service password login attempt fails, the process may
take up to eight seconds.
If you do not want to use RADIUS authorization, you should change the
default login user name and password. You may also want to change the
read-only password. For help, see
Changing the Default Login on page
146.