Cabletron Systems CSX1000 - Manual (Page 177)

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C ONFIGURING U SER L EVEL D ATABASES
User Level Authentication Database Location
U SER L EVEL A UTHENTICATION D ATABASE L OCATION C ONFIGURATION E LEMENTS
D ATABASE L OCATION
The database location for user level security. Choices are: RADIUS Server, TACACS Server, or ACE
Server.
D ATABASE T ELNET P ORT N UMBER
You must also specify the Telnet port number to be used for authentication with the selected server.
This port number is a unique number that identifies the server. For remote authentication, users
will need to Telnet into this specially configured port. Any Telnet sessions coming through this port
must be authenticated via the specified Authentication Server before other actions are allowed.
Note: For user level security, the CyberSWITCH’s default Telnet port number is 7000, not the
normal default (23). The Telnet port number used for remote administration sessions is the
23. If you wish, you can reconfigure the port numbers so that these values are switched (i.e.,
the Telnet administration session uses a higher number, user level security uses the normal
default of 23), but you cannot use 23 for both.
U SER L EVEL A UTHENTICATION D ATABASE L OCATION B ACKGROUND I NFORMATION
An off-node, central database allows a network with more than one CyberSWITCH to access one
database for user authentication. The CyberSWITCH will access the off-node database to locate
authentication information on a user that is attempting to establish a connection. If the user’s
information matches what is configured in the database, then the connection is allowed.