PKI certificate authentication for administrators
Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) authentication uses a certificate authentication library that takes a list of peers, peer groups, and user groups and returns authentication successful or denied notifications. Users only need a valid certificate for successful authentication; no username or password is necessary.
To use PKI authentication for an administrator, you must configure the authentication before you create the administrator accounts. To do this you need to:
• configure a PKI user
• create a PKI user group
• configure an administrator to authenticate with a PKI certificate.