User Guide

AUTHENTICATION OPTIONS
CHAPTER 5: WEB PROXY SERVICES 91
Authentication Options
Table 5-3 describes the authentication options for the advancedproxyconfig CLI
command.
Table 5-3 advancedproxyconfig CLI Command—Authentication Options
Option Valid
Values
Default
Value
Must Restart
Web Proxy?
Description
When would you like to
forward authorization
request headers to a
parent proxy?
Never,
Always,
Only if
not used
by the
WSA
Never Yes This setting determines whether the
Web Proxy includes the
“Proxy-Authorization” header to
upstream servers, including
proxies.
Enter the Proxy
Authorization Realm to
be displayed in the end
user authentication dialog
String “IronPort
Web
Security
Appliance”
No Proxy Authorization Realm
displayed in the End User
Authentication dialog.
Would you like to log the
username that appears in
the request URI?
Yes , No
(Boolean)
No No If enabled, ‘<username>:xxxxx’ is
logged i.e the username is
displayed and the password is
represented as a string, ‘xxxxx’. If
disabled, both username and
password are stripped. Note that
the actual password is never
displayed regardless of the value of
this variable.
Would you like to turn on
presentation of the User
Acknowledgement page?
Yes , No
(Boolean)
No No Enable or disable
Acknowledgement page.
Enter maximum time to
remember User
Acknowledgement (in
seconds):
30 -
2678400
86400 No Maximum time to remember User
Acknowledgement. From 30
seconds to one month (2678400).
Enter maximum idle
timeout for User
Acknowledgement based
on IP Address (in
seconds):
30 -
2678400
14400 No Maximum idle timeout for User
Acknowledgement based on IP
Address. From 30 seconds to one
month (2678400).