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Configuring authenticated access

When you have configured authentication servers, users, and user groups, you are ready to configure security policies and certain types of VPNs to require user authentication.

This section describes:

• Authentication timeout
• Password policy
• Authentication protocols
• Authentication in Captive Portals
• Authentication in security policies
• VPN authentication

Authentication timeout

An important feature of the security provided by authentication is that it is temporary—a user must re-authenticate after logging out. Also if a user is logged on and authenticated for an extended period of time, it is a good policy to have them re-authenticate at set periods. This ensures a user’s session is cannot be spoofed and used maliciously for extended periods of time — re-authentication will cut any spoof attempts short. Shorter timeout values are more secure.

Security authentication timeout

You set the security user authentication timeout to control how long an authenticated connection can be idle before the user must authenticate again. The maximum timeout is 1440 minutes (24 hours).

To set the security authentication timeout - web-based manager:

1. Go to User & Device > Authentication > Settings.
2. Enter the Authentication Timeout value in minutes.
   The default authentication timeout is 5 minutes.
3. Select Apply.

SSL VPN authentication timeout

You set the SSL VPN user authentication timeout (Idle Timeout) to control how long an authenticated connection can be idle before the user must authenticate again. The maximum timeout is 259 200 seconds. The default timeout is 300 seconds.

To set the SSL VPN authentication timeout - web-based manager:

1. Go to VPN > SSL > Settings.
2. Under Idle Logout, make sure that Logout users when inactive for specified period is enabled and enter the Inactive For value (seconds).
3. Select Apply.

Password policy

Password authentication is effective only if the password is sufficiently strong and is changed periodically. By default, the FortiGate unit requires only that passwords be at least eight characters in length. You can set a password policy to enforce higher standards for both length and complexity of passwords. Password policies can apply to administrator passwords or IPsec VPN preshared keys.

To set a password policy in the web-based manager, go to System > Admin > Settings. In the CLI, use the config system password-policy command.

The default minimum password length on the FortiGate unit is eight characters, but up to 128 characters is permitted.

Users usually create passwords composed of alphabetic characters and perhaps some numbers. Password policy can require the inclusion of uppercase letters, lowercase letters, numerals or punctuation characters.

Configuring password minimum requirement policy

Best practices dictate that passwords include:

• one or more uppercase characters
• one or more lower case characters
• one or more of the numerals
• one or more special characters.

The minimum number of each of these types of characters can be set in both the web-based manager and the CLI.

The following procedures show how to force administrator passwords to contain at least two uppercase, four lower care, two digits, and one special character. Leave the minimum length at the default of eight characters.

To change administrator password minimum requirements - web-based manager:

1. Go to System > Admin > Settings.
2. Select Enable Password Policy.
3. Select Must Contain at Least.
4. Enter the following information:

Upper Case Letters	2
Lower Case Letters	4
Numbers	2
Special Characters	1

5. Under Apply Password Policy to, select Administrator Password.
6. Select Apply.

To change administrator password minimum requirements - CLI:

config system password-policy

set status enable

set apply-to admin-password

set min-upper-case-letter 2

set min-lower-case-letter 4

set min-number 2

set min-non-alphanumeric 1

set change-4-characters enable

end

 

The change-4-characters option forces new passwords to change a minimum of four characters in the old password. Changing fewer characters results in the new password being rejected. This option is only available in the CLI.

Password best practices

In addition to length and complexity, there are security factors that cannot be enforced in a policy. Guidelines issued to users will encourage proper password habits.

Best practices dictate that password expiration also be enabled. This forces passwords to be changed on a regular basis. You can set the interval in days. The more sensitive the information this account has access to, the shorter the password expiration interval should be. For example 180 days for guest accounts, 90 days for users, and 60 days for administrators.

Avoid:

• real words found in any language dictionary
• numeric sequences, such as “12345”
• sequences of adjacent keyboard characters, such as “qwerty”
• adding numbers on the end of a word, such as “hello39”
• adding characters to the end of the old password, such as “hello39” to “hello3900”
• repeated characters
• personal information, such as your name, birthday, or telephone number.

Maximum logon attempts and blackout period

When you logon and fail to enter the correct password you could be a valid user, or a hacker attempting to gain access. For this reason, best practices dictate to limit the number of failed attempts to logon before a blackout period where you cannot logon.

To set a maximum of five failed authentication attempts before the blackout, using the following CLI command:

config user setting

set auth-invalid-max 5

end

 

To set the length of the blackout period to five minutes, or 300 seconds, once the maximum number of failed logon attempts has been reached, use the following CLI command:

config user setting

set auth-blackout-time 300

end

Authentication protocols

When user authentication is enabled on a security policy, the authentication challenge is normally issued for any of the four protocols, HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and Telnet, which are dependent on the connection protocol. By making selections in the Protocol Support list, the user controls which protocols support the authentication challenge. The user must connect with a supported protocol first, so that they can subsequently connect with other protocols.

For example, if you have selected HTTP, FTP, or Telnet, a username and password-based authentication occurs. The FortiGate unit then prompts network users to input their security username and password. If you have selected HTTPS, certificate-based authentication (HTTPS, or HTTP redirected to HTTPS only) occurs.

FTP and Telnet authentication replacement messages cannot be customized. For HTTP and HTTPS replacement messages see Authentication replacement messages.

For certificate-based authentication, you must install customized certificates on the FortiGate unit and on the browsers of network users. If you do not install certificates on the network user’s web browser, the network users may see an SSL certificate warning message and have to manually accept the default FortiGate certificate. The network user’s web browser may deem the default certificate as invalid.

When you use certificate authentication, if you do not specify any certificate when you create the security policy, the global settings are used. If you specify a certificate, the per-policy setting will overwrite the global setting. For more information about the use of certification authentication see Certificate-based authentication.

To set the authentication protocols

1. Go to User & Device > Authentication > Settings.
2. In Protocol Support, select the required authentication protocols.
3. If using HTTPS protocol support, in Certificate, select a Local certificate from the drop-down list.
4. Select Apply.

Authentication in Captive Portals

Network interfaces, including WiFi interfaces, can perform authentication at the interface level using a captive portal — an HTML form that requests the user’s name and password. A captive portal is useful where all users connecting to the network interface must authenticate. Optionally, on a WiFi interface, the captive portal can be combined with a terms of service disclaimer to which the user must agree before gaining access. For more information, see Captive portals.

Once successfully authenticated, the user’s session passes to the firewall.

Authentication in security policies

Security policies control traffic between FortiGate interfaces, both physical interfaces and VLAN subinterfaces. The firewall tries to match the session’s user or group identity, device type, destination, etcetera to a security policy. When a match is found, the user connects to the requested destination. If no security policy matches, the user is denied access.

A user who has not already been authenticated by a captive portal, FSSO, or RSSO can match only policies where no user or user group is specified. If no such policy exists, the firewall requests authentication. If the user can authenticate and the session can be matched to a policy, the user connects to the requested destination, otherwise, the user is denied access.

This section includes:

• Enabling authentication protocols
• Authentication replacement messages
• Access to the Internet
• Configuring authentication security policies
• Identity-based policy
• NTLM authentication
• Certificate authentication
• Restricting number of concurrent user logons

Enabling authentication protocols

Users can authenticate using FTP, HTTP, HTTPS, and Telnet. However, these protocols must be enabled first.

Another authentication option is to redirect any attempts to authenticate using HTTP to a more secure channel that uses HTTPS. This forces users to a more secure connection before entering their user credentials.

To enable support for authentication protocols - web-based manager:

1. Go to User & Device > Authentication > Settings.
2. Select one or more of HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, Telnet, or Redirect HTTP Challenge to a Secure Channel (HTTPS). Only selected protocols will be available for use in authentication.
3. Select the Certificate to use, for example Fortinet_Factory.
4. Select Apply.

To enable support for authentication protocols - CLI:

config user setting

set auth-type ftp http https telnet

set auth-cert Fortinet_Factory

end

Authentication replacement messages

A replacement message is the body of a webpage containing a message about a blocked website message, a file too large message, a disclaimer, or even a login page for authenticating. The user is presented with this message instead of the blocked content.

Authentication replacement messages are the prompts a user sees during the security authentication process such as login page, disclaimer page, and login success or failure pages. These are different from most replacement messages because they are interactive requiring a user to enter information, instead of simply informing the user of some event as other replacement messages do.

Replacement messages have a system-wide default configuration, a per-VDOM configuration, and disclaimers can be customized for multiple security policies within a VDOM.

These replacement messages are used for authentication using HTTP and HTTPS. Authentication replacement messages are HTML messages. You cannot customize the security authentication messages for FTP and Telnet.

The authentication login page and the authentication disclaimer include replacement tags and controls not found on other replacement messages.

More information about replacement messages can be found in the config system replacemsg section of the FortiOS CLI Reference.

List of authentication replacement messages

Replacement message name (CLI name)	Description
Login challenge page (auth-challenge-page)	This HTML page is displayed if security users are required to answer a question to complete authentication. The page displays the question and includes a field in which to type the answer. This feature is supported by RADIUS and uses the generic RADIUS challenge-access auth response. Usually, challenge-access responses contain a Reply-Message attribute that contains a message for the user (for example, “Please enter new PIN”). This message is displayed on the login challenge page. The user enters a response that is sent back to the RADIUS server to be verified. The Login challenge page is most often used with RSA RADIUS server for RSA SecurID authentication. The login challenge appears when the server needs the user to enter a new PIN. You can customize the replacement message to ask the user for a SecurID PIN. This page uses the %%QUESTION%% tag.
Disclaimer page (auth-disclaimer-page-1) (auth-disclaimer-page-2) (auth-disclaimer-page-3)	This page prompts user to accept the displayed disclaimer when leaving the captive portal to access Internet resources. It is displayed when the captive portal type is Authentication and Disclaimer or Disclaimer Only. In the CLI, the auth-disclaimer-page-2 and auth-disclaimer-page-3 pages seamlessly extend the size of the disclaimer page from 8 192 characters to 16 384 and 24 576 characters respectively. In the web-based manager this is handled automatically. See Disclaimer.
Email token page (auth-email-token-page)	The page prompting a user to enter their email token. See Email on page 1.
FortiToken page (auth-fortitoken-page)	The page prompting a user to enter their FortiToken code. See FortiToken.
Keepalive page (auth-keepalive-page)	The HTML page displayed with security authentication keepalive is enabled using the following CLI command: config system globalset auth-keepalive enable end Authentication keepalive keeps authenticated firewall sessions from ending when the authentication timeout ends. In the web-based manager, go to User & Device > Authentication > Settings to set the Authentication Timeout. This page includes %%TIMEOUT%%.
Login failed page (auth-login-failed-page)	The Disclaimer page replacement message does not re-direct the user to a redirect URL or the security policy does not include a redirect URL. When a user selects the button on the disclaimer page to decline access through the FortiGate unit, the Declined disclaimer page is displayed.
Login page (auth-login-page)	The authentication HTML page displayed when users who are required to authenticate connect through the FortiGate unit using HTTP or HTTPS. Prompts the user for their username and password to login. This page includes %%USERNAMEID%% and %%PASSWORDID%% tags.
Declined disclaimer page (auth-reject-page)	The page displayed if a user declines the disclaimer page. See Disclaimer.
SMS Token page (auth-sms-token-page)	The page prompting a user to enter their SMS token. See SMS.
Success message (auth-success-msg)	The page displayed when a user successfully authenticates. Prompts user to attempt their connection again (as the first was interrupted for authentication).

Access to the Internet

A policy for accessing the Internet is similar to a policy for accessing a specific network, but the destination address is set to all. The destination interface is the one that connects to the Internet Service Provider (ISP). For general purpose Internet access, the Service is set to ALL.

Access to HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and Telnet sites may require access to a domain name service. DNS requests do not trigger authentication. You must configure a policy to permit unauthenticated access to the appropriate DNS server, and this policy must precede the policy for Internet access. Failure to do this will result in the lack of a DNS connection and a corresponding lack of access to the Internet.

Configuring authentication security policies

To include authentication in a security policy, the policy must specify user groups. A security policy can authenticate by certificate, FSSO, and NTLM. The two exceptions to this are RADIUS SSO and FSSO Agents. See SSO using RADIUS accounting records, and Introduction to FSSO agents.

Before creating a security policy, you need to configure one or more users or user groups. For more information, see Users and user groups.

Creating the security policy is the same as a regular security policy except you must select the action specific to your authentication method:

Authentication methods allowed for each policy Action

Action	Authentication method	Where authentication is used
ACCEPT	FSSO Agent or a security policy that specifies an FSSO user group	Agent-based FSSO.
	NTLM	See NTLM authentication.
	Certificates	See Configuring certificate-based authentication.
	RADIUS SSO	See SSO using RADIUS accounting records.
DENY	none	none

Disclaimer

A WiFi or SSL captive portal can include a disclaimer message presented after the user authenticates. The user must agree to the terms of the disclaimer to access network resources.

Customizing authentication replacement messages

Customizing disclaimers or other authentication replacement messages involves changing the text of the disclaimer message, and possibly the overall appearance of the message.

Changing the disclaimer in System > Config > Replacement messages is not the same as selecting to customize a disclaimer used in a captive portal. The System > Config location is the default message that all disclaimers inherit. The captive portal location is a customized disclaimer that inherits the default format for the disclaimer message, but then can be customized for this portal.

To customize the disclaimer for a captive portal - web-based manager:

1. Go to System > Network > Interface. Either select an existing interface or create a new one.
2. Under Security Mode, select Captive Portal, and enable Customize Portal Messages.
3. Select the Edit icon. You can select and edit any of the pages. Change your text or layout as needed.

Enabling security logging

There are two types of logging that relate to authentication — event logging, and security logging.

When enabled, event logging records system events such as configuration changes, and authentication. To configure event logging, go to Log&Report > Log Config > Log Settings and enable Event Logging. Select the events you want to log, such as User activity event.

When enabled, security logging will log security profile and security policy traffic.

You must enable logging within a security policy, as well as the options that are applied to a security policy, such as security profiles features. Event logs are enabled within the Event Log page.

For more information on logging, see the FortiOS Log and Reporting guide.

For more information on specific types of log messages, see the FortiOS Log Message Reference.

You need to set the logging severity level to Notification when configuring a logging location to record traffic log messages.

To enable logging within an existing security policy - web-based manager:

1. Go to Policy & Objects > Policy > IPv4.
2. Expand to reveal the policy list of a policy.
3. Select the security policy you want to enable logging on and then select Edit.
4. To log all general firewall traffic, select the check box beside Log Allowed Traffic, and choose to enable Security Events or All Sessions.
5. Select OK.

Identity-based policy

An identity-based policy (IBP) performs user authentication in addition to the normal security policy duties. If the user does not authenticate, access to network resources is refused. This enforces Role Based Access Control (RBAC) to your organization’s network and resources.

Identity-based policies also support Single Sign-On operation. The user groups selected in the policy are of the Fortinet Single Sign-On (FSSO) type.

User authentication can occur through any of the following supported protocols, including: HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and Telnet. The authentication style depends on which of these protocols is included in the selected security services group and which of those enabled protocols the network user applies to trigger the authentication challenge.

For username and password-based authentication (HTTP, FTP, and Telnet) the FortiGate unit prompts network users to enter their username, password, and token code if two-factor authentication is selected for that user account. For certificate-based authentication, including HTTPS or HTTP redirected to HTTPS only, see Certificate authentication.

With identity-based policies, the FortiGate unit allows traffic that matches the source and destination addresses, device types, and so on. This means specific security policies must be placed before more general ones to be effective.

When the identity-based policy has been configured, the option to customize authentication messages is available. This allows you to change the text, style, layout, and graphics of the replacement messages associated with this firewall policy. When enabled, customizing these messages follows the same method as changing the disclaimer. See Disclaimer.

Types of authentication also available in identity-based policies are

• NTLM authentication
• Certificate authentication

NTLM authentication

NT LAN Manager (NTLM) protocol can be used as a fallback for authentication when the Active Directory (AD) domain controller is unreachable. NTLM uses the web browser to send and receive authentication information. See "NTLM" and "FSSO NTLM authentication support".

To enable NTLM

1. Edit the policy in the CLI to enable NTLM. For example, if the policy ID is 4:
2. Go to Policy & Objects > Policy > IPv4 and note the ID number of your FSSO policy.
3. The policy must have an FSSO user group as Source User(s). There must be at least one FSSO Collector agent configured on the FortiGate unit.

config firewall policy

edit 4

set ntlm enable

end

NTLM guest access

Guest profile access may be granted to users who fail NTLM authentication, such as visitors who have no user credentials on the network. To allow guest user access, edit the FSSO security policy in the CLI, like this:

config firewall policy

edit 4

set ntlm enable

set ntlm-guest enable

end

NTLM enabled browsers - CLI

User agent strings for NTLM enabled browsers allow the inspection of initial HTTP-User-Agent values, so that non-supported browsers are able to go straight to guest access without needlessly prompting the user for credentials that will fail. ntlm-guest must be enabled to use this option.

config firewall policy

edit 4

set ntlm enable

set ntlm-guest enable

set ntlm-enabled-browsers <user_agent_string>

next

end

 

<user_agent_string> is the name of the browser that is NTLM enabled. Examples of these values include “MSIE”, “Mozilla” (which includes FireFox), and “Opera”.

Value strings can be up to 63 characters in length, and may not contain cross site scripting (XSS) vulnerability characters such as brackets. The FortiGate unit prevents use of these characters to prevent exploit of cross site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities.

Certificate authentication

You can configure certificate-based authentication for FortiGate administrators, SSL VPN users, and IPsec VPN users. See Configuring certificate-based authentication.

Certificates are also inherent to the HTTPS protocol, where the browser validates the server’s identity using certificates. A site certificate must be installed on the FortiGate unit and the corresponding Certificate Authority (CA) certificate installed in the web browser.

To force the use of HTTPS, go to User & Device > Authentication > Settings and select Redirect HTTP Challenge to a Secure Channel (HTTPS).

Restricting number of concurrent user logons

Some users on your network may often have multiple account sessions open at one time either to the same network resource or accessing to the admin interface on the FortiGate unit.

While there are valid reasons for having multiple concurrent sessions open, hackers also do this to speed up their malicious work. Often a hacker is making multiple attempts to gain access to the internal network or the admin interface of the FortiGate unit, usually from different IP addresses to appear to the FortiGate unit as legitimate users. For this reason, the more concurrent sessions a hacker has open at once, the faster they will achieve their goal.

To help prevent this, you can disallow concurrent administrative access using the same administrator user name, but from a different IP address. This allows valid users to continue their legitimate work while limiting hackers’ activity.

To disable concurrent administrator sessions - CLI:

config system global

set admin-concurrent disable

end

VPN authentication

All VPN configurations require users to authenticate. Authentication based on user groups applies to:

• SSL VPNs
• PPTP and L2TP VPNs
• an IPsec VPN that authenticates users using dialup groups
• a dialup IPsec VPN that uses XAUTH authentication (Phase 1)

You must create user accounts and user groups before performing the procedures in this section. If you create a user group for dialup IPsec clients or peers that have unique peer IDs, their user accounts must be stored locally on the FortiGate unit. You cannot authenticate these types of users using a RADIUS or LDAP server.

Configuring authentication of SSL VPN users

The general procedure for authenticating SSL VPN users is:

1. Configure user accounts.
2. Create one or more user groups for SSL VPN users.
   
3. Enable SSL VPN.
4. Optionally, set inactivity and authentication timeouts.
5. Configure a security policy with the user groups you created for SSL VPN users.
   See FortiOS Handbook SSL VPN guide.

Configuring authentication timeout

By default, the SSL VPN authentication expires after 8 hours (28 800 seconds). You can change it only in the CLI, and the time entered must be in seconds. The maximum time is 72 hours (259 200 seconds). For example, to change this timeout to one hour, you would enter:

config vpn ssl settings

set auth-timeout 3600

end

If you set the authentication timeout (auth‑timeout) to 0 when you configure the timeout settings, the remote client does not have to re-authenticate unless they log out of the system. To fully take advantage of this setting, the value for idle-timeout has to be set to 0 also, so that the client does not time out if the maximum idle time is reached. If the idle-timeout is not set to the infinite value, the system will log out if it reaches the limit set, regardless of the auth-timeout setting.

Configuring authentication of remote IPsec VPN users

An IPsec VPN on a FortiGate unit can authenticate remote users through a dialup group. The user account name is the peer ID and the password is the pre-shared key.

Authentication through user groups is supported for groups containing only local users. To authenticate users using a RADIUS or LDAP server, you must configure XAUTH settings. See Configuring XAuth authentication.

To configure user group authentication for dialup IPsec - web-based manager:

1. Configure the dialup users who are permitted to use this VPN. Create a user group with Type:Firewall and add them to it.
   For more information, see Users and user groups
2. Go to VPN > IPsec > Wizard, select Dialup, choose a name for the VPN, and enter the following information.

Incoming Interface	Select the incoming interface name.
Authentication Method	List of authentication methods available for users. Select Preshared Key and enter the preshared key.
User Group	Select the user group that is to be allowed access to the VPN. The listed user groups contain only users with passwords on the FortiGate unit.

3. Select Next and continue configure other VPN parameters as needed.
4. Select OK.

To configure user group authentication for dialup IPsec - CLI example:

The peertype and usrgrp options configure user group-based authentication.

config vpn ipsec phase1

edit office_vpn

set interface port1

set type dynamic

set psksecret yORRAzltNGhzgtV32jend

set proposal 3des-sha1 aes128-sha1

set peertype dialup

set usrgrp Group1

end

Configuring XAuth authentication

Extended Authentication (XAuth) increases security by requiring additional user authentication information in a separate exchange at the end of the VPN Phase 1 negotiation. The FortiGate unit asks the user for a username and password. It then forwards the user’s credentials (the password is encrypted) to an external RADIUS or LDAP server for verification.

XAuth can be used in addition to or in place of IPsec phase 1 peer options to provide access security through an LDAP or RADIUS authentication server. You must configure a dialup user group whose members are all externally authenticated.

To configure authentication for a dialup IPsec VPN - web-based manager:

1. Configure the users who are permitted to use this VPN. Create a user group and add the users to the group.
   For more information, see Users and user groups.
2. Go to VPN > IPsec > Wizard, select Dialup, choose a name for the VPN, and enter the following information.

Incoming Interface	Select the incoming interface name.
Authentication Method	List of authentication methods available for users. Select Preshared Key and enter the preshared key.
User Group	Select the user group that is to be allowed access to the VPN. The listed user groups contain only users with passwords on the FortiGate unit.

3. Select Next and continue configure other VPN parameters as needed.
4. Select OK.
5. Go to VPN > IPsec > Tunnels, edit the Tunnel just created, select Convert To Custom Tunnel, and edit XAUTH as following:

Type	Select PAP, CHAP, or AUTO. Use CHAP whenever possible. Use PAP with all implementations of LDAP and with other authentication servers that do not support CHAP, including some implementations of Microsoft RADIUS. Use AUTO with the Fortinet Remote VPN Client and where the authentication server supports CHAP but the XAuth client does not.
User Group	Select the user group that is to have access to the VPN. The list of user groups does not include any group that has members whose password is stored on the FortiGate unit.

6. Select OK.

For more information about XAUTH configuration, see the IPsec VPN chapter of the FortiOS Handbook.

To configure authentication for a dialup IPsec VPN - CLI example:

The xauthtype and authusrgrp fields configure XAuth authentication.

config vpn ipsec phase1

edit office_vpn

set interface port1

set type dynamic

set psksecret yORRAzltNGhzgtV32jend

set proposal 3des-sha1 aes128-sha1

set peertype dialup

set xauthtype pap

set usrgrp Group1

end

 

Some parameters specific to setting up the VPN itself are not shown here. For detailed information about configuring IPsec VPNs, see the FortiOS Handbook IPsec VPN guide.

Configuring authentication of PPTP VPN users and user groups

Configuration of a PPTP VPN is possible only through the CLI. You can configure user groups and security policies using either CLI or web-based manager.

LDAP user authentication is supported for PPTP, L2TP, IPsec VPN, and firewall authentication. However, with PPTP, L2TP, and IPsec VPN, PAP (Packet Authentication Protocol) is supported, while CHAP (Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol) is not.

To configure authentication for a PPTP VPN

1. Configure the users who are permitted to use this VPN. Create a security user group and add them to it.
   For more information, see Users and user groups.
2. Configure the PPTP VPN in the CLI as in this example.

config vpn pptp

set status enable

set sip 192.168.0.100

set eip 192.168.0.110

set usrgrp PPTP_Group

end

The sip and eip fields define a range of virtual IP addresses assigned to PPTP clients.

Configure a security policy. The source interface is the one through which the clients will connect. The source address is the PPTP virtual IP address range. The destination interface and address depend on the network to which the clients will connect. The policy action is ACCEPT.

Configuring authentication of L2TP VPN users/user groups

Configuration of a L2TP VPN is possible only through the CLI. You can configure user groups and security policies using either CLI or web-based manager.

LDAP user authentication is supported for PPTP, L2TP, IPsec VPN, and firewall authentication. However, with PPTP, L2TP, and IPsec VPN, PAP (Packet Authentication Protocol) is supported, while CHAP (Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol) is not.

To configure authentication for a L2TP VPN

1. Configure the users who are permitted to use this VPN. Create a user group and add them to it.
   For more information, see Users and user groups.
2. Configure the L2TP VPN in the CLI as in this example.

config vpn l2tp

set status enable

set sip 192.168.0.100

set eip 192.168.0.110

set usrgrp L2TP_Group

end

The sip and eip fields define a range of virtual IP addresses assigned to L2TP clients.

3. Configure a security policy. The source interface is the one through which the clients will connect. The source address is the L2TP virtual IP address range. The destination interface and address depend on the network to which the clients will connect. The policy action is ACCEPT.