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Questions tagged [aaa]

Authentication, Authorization and Accountability concerns

AAA stands for:

  • Authentication: The ability to identify a user
  • Authorization: The ability to grant access for a specific resource to a specific user
  • Accountability: The ability to trace the actions performed by a user
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Security concerns of RADIUS based server/workstation auth

So I'm using WPA2-EAP for a few years now with FreeRadius server. And it's pretty okay, I mean I don't really consider wifi access to be so super-duper critical break in success because it's pretty restricted anyways on other levels so I accepted…
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Why not use Diameter over RADIUS?

The name of the protocol is a play on the word Diameter, which is twice the RADIUS of a circle - in other words, the author is trying to say it is twice as good and has more features. It seems like the pros outweigh the cons, and according to this…
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The benifits of Full NAC solution VS simple radius server

In case we want to enable dot1x authentication on the wired network without using host checker,do we still need NAC solution or just simple AAA server to authenticate the host and dynamic VLAN assignment? Any added value for the NAC solution in this…
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Secure way to save the local credentials?

In the network administration world, normally we configure the network devices to use an AAA server (Radius or tacacs+). As a backup, in case the AAA server is not reachable, we configure the network device to use its local database (local username…
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