Chapter 17 User/Group
NXC Series User’s Guide
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The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 101 Configuration > Object > User/Group > Setting
LABEL DESCRIPTION
User Default
Settings
Default
Authentication
Timeout Settings
These authentication timeout settings are used by default when you create a new user
account. They also control the settings for any existing user accounts that are set to
use the default settings. You can still manually configure any user account’s
authentication timeout settings.
Edit Double-click an entry or select it and click Edit to open a screen where you can modify
the entry’s settings.
# This field is a sequential value, and it is not associated with a specific entry.
User Type These are the kinds of user account the NXC supports.
• 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.
• dynamic-guest - this user has access to the NXC’s services within a given period of
time but cannot look at the configuration.
• 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. You do not need to set the lease time and
reauthentication time for this type of user account.
Lease Time This is the default lease time in minutes for each type of user account. It defines the
number of minutes the user has to renew the current session before the user is logged
out.
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.
Reauthenticatio
n Time
This is the default reauthentication time in minutes for each type of user account. It
defines the number of minutes the user can be logged into the NXC in one session
before having to log in again. Unlike Lease Time, the user has no opportunity to renew
the session without logging out.
Miscellaneous
Settings
Allow renewing
lease time
automatically
Select this check box if access users can renew lease time automatically, as well as
manually, simply by selecting the Updating lease time automatically check box on
their screen.
Enable user idle
detection
This is applicable for access users.
Select this check box if you want the NXC to monitor how long each access user is
logged in and idle (in other words, there is no traffic for this access user). The NXC
automatically logs out the access user once the User idle timeout has been reached.
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