TEMPORARY ACCOUNTS
This service enables the management of accounts with a limited validity duration. These
accounts are meant to provide temporary public Internet access to persons outside the
organization. Temporary accounts are not saved in the LDAP directory(ies) declared on the
firewall.
These accounts consist of the following information:
l First name(mandatory),
l Last name(mandatory),
l E-mail address (optional),
l Company (optional),
l Date from which the account will be valid (mandatory),
l Date until which the account will be valid (mandatory),
l Connection ID automatically made up of the first name and last name separated by a period,
l Automatically generated password.
To find out which characters are allowed or prohibited in various fields, please refer to Appendix
A: Allowed names.
The Temporary account module contains 2 tabs:
l Configuration: this tab allows you to enable temporary account management and define a
default validity duration for accounts,
l List of temporary accounts: this tab allows creating/deleting temporary accounts.
“Configuration” tab
Enable temporary
accounts module
If this option is selected, you will enable authentication through the use of temporary
accounts. The Temporary accounts method will then be automatically added to the
list of available methods (Authentication module).
Default validity
duration of a new user
account (days)
This field allows setting a validity duration (in days) that will be suggested by default
when a new temporary account is created.
"Temporary accounts list" tab
In this tab, temporary accounts can be managed: add, delete, modify, print information, export
the list of accounts.
The table
This table sets out all information relating to temporary accounts created on the firewall. It
contains the following columns:
ID Connection ID of the temporary user. It will be automatically created by concatenating
the first name and last name separated by a period. Example: john.doe
First name First name associated with the account.
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