Configuring convenience authentication settings – Xerox WorkCentre 7835ii User Manual

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Xerox

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WorkCentre

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7800/7800i Series Color Multifunction Printer

System Administrator Guide

Configuring Convenience Authentication Settings

When Convenience Authentication is enabled, users swipe a pre-programmed identification card

through a proximity card reader at the control panel. To use this method, purchase and install a USB

card reader and an authentication server that supports the Xerox

®

Convenience Authentication API.

The Login Methods page in Xerox

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CentreWare

®

Internet Services provides links to authentication and

personalization configuration settings.
1.

In Xerox

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CentreWare

®

Internet Services, click

Properties > Login/Permissions/Accounting.

2.

Click Login Methods.

To configure access rights using Convenience Authentication:

Format and configure identification cards.

Connect your card reader to the USB Port.

Enable the Xerox

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Secure Access Web service.

Set the login method to Convenience Authentication. For details, see

Setting the Login Method

on

page 75.

To provide information about your authentication server, next to Convenience Authentication

Setup, under Action, click

Edit.

To enable the Xerox

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Secure Access Web service, next to Web Service Enablement, under Action,

click

Edit.

To configure card reader policies, next to Card Reader Setup, click Edit.

To customize the title and instruction text that appears on the blocking screen, next to Customized

Blocking Screen, click

Edit.

If you selected an alternate login method that requires a network authentication server, provide

information about your server. Next to Authentication Servers, under Action, click

Edit.

To provide information about your LDAP server for personalization, next to LDAP Servers, under

Action, click

Edit.

Configure authorization settings. For details, see

Authorization

on page 86.

Configuring an Authentication Server for Convenience Authentication

1.

On the Login Methods page, next to Convenience Authentication Setup, click Edit.

2.

Under Server Communication, select an address type. Type the appropriately formatted address or

host name of your server and change the default port number as needed.

3.

Under Path, type the path of the authentication Web service on your server.

4.

When Network Accounting is configured, the printer can obtain user accounting information from

the authentication server. To reduce the number of screens that appear when a user logs in at the

control panel, select

Automatically apply Accounting Codes from the server.

If you want users to provide an accounting code at the control panel, select

User must manually

enter accounting codes at the device.

5.

Click Save.

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