Chapter 17 User/Group
NXC Series User’s Guide
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The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 98 Configuration > User/Group > User > Add/Edit A User
LABEL DESCRIPTION
User Name Type the user name for this user account. You may use 1-31 alphanumeric characters,
underscores(
_), or dashes (-), but the first character cannot be a number. This value is case-
sensitive. User names have to be different than user group names, and some words are
reserved.
User Type Select what type of user this is. Choices are:
• admin - this user can look at and change the configuration of the NXC
• limited-admin - this user can look at the configuration of the NXC but not to change it
• user - this user has access to the NXC’s services but cannot look at the configuration
• guest - this user has access to the NXC’s services but cannot look at the configuration
• ext-user - this user account is maintained in a remote server, such as RADIUS or LDAP.
• ext-group-user - this user account is maintained in a remote server, such as RADIUS or
LDAP.
• guest-manager - this user can log in via the web configurator login screen and create
dynamic guest accounts using the Master Manager screen that pops up
• mac-address - an external server authenticates wireless clients based on their MAC
addresses. After authentication the NXC maps a wireless client to a MAC address user
account (MAC role). User-aware features control MAC address user access to specific
resources.
Password This field is not available if you select the ext-user or ext-group-user type.
Enter the password of this user account. It can consist of 4 - 31 alphanumeric characters.
Retype This field is not available if you select the ext-user or ext-group-user type.
Group
Identifier
This field is available for a ext-group-user type user account.
Specify the value of the AD or LDAP server’s Group Membership Attribute that identifies the
group to which this user belongs.
Associated
AAA Server
Object
This field is available for a ext-group-user type user account. Select the AAA server to use to
authenticate this account’s users.
Description Enter the description of each user, if any. You can use up to 60 printable ASCII characters.
Default descriptions are provided.
Authenticati
on Timeout
Settings
If you want to set authentication timeout to a value other than the default settings, select Use
Manual Settings then fill your preferred values in the fields that follow.
Lease Time Enter the number of minutes this user has to renew the current session before the user is
logged out. You can specify 1 to 1440 minutes. You can enter 0 to make the number of minutes
unlimited. Admin users renew the session every time the main screen refreshes in the Web
Configurator. Access users can renew the session by clicking the Renew button on their screen.
If you allow access users to renew time automatically, the users can select this check box on
their screen as well. In this case, the session is automatically renewed before the lease time
expires.
Reauthentic
ation Time
Type the number of minutes this user can be logged into the NXC in one session before the user
has to log in again. You can specify 1 to 1440 minutes. You can enter 0 to make the number of
minutes unlimited. Unlike Lease Time, the user has no opportunity to renew the session
without logging out.
Configuratio
n Validation
Use a user account from the group specified above to test if the configuration is correct. Enter
the account’s user name in the User Name field and click Test.
OK Click OK to save your changes back to the NXC.
Cancel Click Cancel to exit this screen without saving your changes.
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