User Manual Part 4

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SpectraGuard® Enterprise User Guide
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Certificate Authentication
The required authentication option can be activated based on the various combinations of the Enable certificate
based authentication box, Allow access without certificate box, and Users must provide password along with
certificate box.
The following table describes the activation of the authentication options based on the check boxes selected by the
user.
Authentication option to activate
Check box to be selected
Enable certificate
based
authentication
Allow access without
certificate
Users must provide
password along with
certificate
Password only
No
-
-
Certificate only
Yes
No
No
Certificate and password
Yes
No
Yes
Certificate or password
Yes
Yes
No
Note: In order to use certificate based authentication, it is necessary that the GUI host is able to access the server at
TCP port 4433. If there is a firewall between the GUI host and the server, port 4433 must be opened from the host to
the server, in order to be able to use certificate based authentication.
When either Certificate only, Certificate and Password, or Certificate or Password option is activated, the additional details
should be provided as follows: