User guide

Chapter 10: Creating Aliases and Implementing Authentication
132 WatchGuard Firebox System
To specify authentication type:
1 From Policy Manager, select Setup => Firewall Authentication.
The Firewall Authentication dialog box appears, as shown in the following figure.
2 In the Authentication Enabled Via box, select the authentication
server you want you use.
3 In Logon Time-out, select how many seconds are allowed for an
attempted logon before the time-out shuts down the connection.
4 In Session Time-out, set how many hours a session can remain open
before the time-out shuts down the connection.
Defining Firebox Users and Groups for Authentication
In the absence of a third-party authentication server, you can divide your
company into groups and users for authentication. Assign employees or
members to groups based on factors such as common tasks and functions,
access needs, and trustworthiness. For example, you might have a group
for accounting, another for marketing, and a third for research and
development. You also might create a probationary group with high
restrictions for new employees.
Within groups, you define users according to factors such as the method
they use to authenticate, the type of system they use, or the information
they need to access. Users can be either networks or individual