Fortinet FortiGate User Manual

Table of Contents
FortiGate User Authentication Version 1 Guide
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Table of Contents
Introduction ........................................................................................ 5
The user’s view of authentication.................................................................... 5
Web-based user authentication .................................................................... 5
VPN client-based authentication ................................................................... 6
The FortiGate administrator’s view of authentication.................................... 6
Authentication servers................................................................................... 7
Users............................................................................................................. 7
User groups................................................................................................... 7
Authentication timeout................................................................................... 8
Firewall policies............................................................................................. 8
VPN tunnels .................................................................................................. 8
Authentication servers ...................................................................... 9
RADIUS Servers................................................................................................. 9
Understanding your RADIUS server ............................................................. 9
Configuring the FortiGate unit to use a RADIUS server................................ 9
LDAP Servers................................................................................................... 10
Understanding your LDAP server ............................................................... 11
Configuring the FortiGate unit to use an LDAP server................................ 12
Active Directory servers ................................................................................. 13
Understanding your Active Directory server................................................ 13
Configuring the FortiGate unit to use an Active Directory server ................ 13
Users and user groups.................................................................... 15
Users................................................................................................................. 15
Defining local users..................................................................................... 15
User groups...................................................................................................... 17
Protection profiles ....................................................................................... 17
Defining user groups ................................................................................... 17
Configuring authenticated access ................................................. 19
Authentication timeout.................................................................................... 19
Firewall policy authentication ........................................................................ 19
Configuring authentication for a firewall policy............................................ 20
Configuring authenticated access to the Internet........................................ 20
Firewall policy order .................................................................................... 21
VPN authentication.......................................................................................... 21
Authenticating PPTP and L2TP VPN users ................................................ 22
Authenticating remote IPSec VPN users using dialup groups .................... 23
Enabling XAuth authentication for dialup IPSec VPN clients ...................... 24

Fortinet FortiGate Specifications

General

Brand	Fortinet
Model	FortiGate
Category	Firewall
Language	English