User guide

Chapter 7: Security Menu and Forms 59
administrator privileges have administrative access and users with regular user privileges have
regular user access.
4. To specify a time-out period in seconds for each authentication attempt, type a number in the
Timeout field.
If the authentication server does not respond to the client’s login attempt before the specified
time period, the login attempt is cancelled. The user may retry depending on the number
specified in the Retries field on this form.
5. To specify a number of times the user can request authentication verification from the server
before sending an authentication failure message to the user, enter a number in the
Retries field.
6. Click apply changes.
The LDAP authentication server
Perform the following procedure to configure an LDAP authentication server when the console
server or any of its ports are configured to use the LDAP authentication method or any of its
variations (LDAP, LDAP/Local or LDAPDownLocal).
You can enter information in the LDAP User Name, LDAP Password and LDAP Login Attribute
fields, but an entry is not required.
Work with the LDAP server administrator to ensure that the following types of accounts are set up
on the LDAP server and that the administrators of the console server and the connected devices
know the passwords assigned to the accounts:
• An account for admin.
• If LDAP authentication is specified for the console server, accounts for all users who need to
log into the console server to administer connected devices.
• If LDAP authentication is specified for serial ports, accounts for users who need administrative
access to the connected devices.
To configure an LDAP authentication server:
1. Go to Security - Authentication - LDAP in Expert mode. The LDAP form displays with LDAP
Server and LDAP Base fields filled in from with the current values in the /etc/ldap.conf file.