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200 CHAPTER 7: AAA COMMANDS
Defaults — By default, authentication is deactivated for all MAC users,
which means MAC address authentication fails by default. When using
RADIUS for authentication, a MAC user’s MAC address is also used as the
authorization password for that user, and no global authorization
password is set.
Access — Enabled.
History —Introduced in MSS Version 3.0.
Usage — You can configure different authentication methods for
different groups of MAC addresses by “globbing.” (For details, see “User
Globs, MAC Address Globs, and VLAN Globs” on page 24.)
If you specify multiple authentication methods in the set authentication
mac command, MSS applies them in the order in which they appear in
the command, with these results:
If the first method responds with pass or fail, the evaluation is final.
If the first method does not respond, MSS tries the second method, and
so on.
However, if local appears first, followed by a RADIUS server group, MSS
ignores any failed searches in the local WX database and sends an
authentication request to the RADIUS server group.
If the switch’s configuration contains a set authentication mac
command that matches the SSID the user is attempting to access and the
user’s MAC address, MSS uses the method specified by the command.
Otherwise, MSS uses local MAC authentication by default.
If the username does not match an authentication rule for the SSID the
user is attempting to access, MSS uses the fallthru authentication type
configured for the SSID, which can be last-resort, web (for WebAAA),
or none.
Examples — To use the local WX database to authenticate all users who
access the mycorp2 SSID by their MAC address, type the following
command:
WX4400# set authentication ssid mycorp2 mac ** local
success: change accepted.