Web Gateway 7.1.5 Product Guide - McAfee

Module for authenticating users
Authentication and access management
Standard authentication 5
The Authentication module is called by the rules for authenticating users on the appliance to handle the
authentication process. This section tells you how to configure the settings of this module, for example,
to let it use a particular authentication method.
Configure the Authentication module
To configure settings for the authentication module:
1 Go to Policy | Rule Sets.
2 On the rule sets tree, go to the rule set that contains rules for authenticating users, for example, the
default Authentication and Authorize rule set; and select the nested Authenticate with User
Database rule set. The rules of the nested rule set appear on the settings pane.
3 Select the rule that controls user authentication, for example, Authenticate with User Database
and click the settings that are specified in the rule criteria, for example, User Database. The Edit
Settings window opens.
Note: You can also access these settings on the Settings tab of the Policy top-level menu.
On the Engines branch of the settings tree, go to Authentication and select the settings you want to
configure, for example, User Database.
4 Configure these settings as needed. Then click OK to close the window.
Note: Configuring these settings can include a change of the authentication method, for example, from
User Database to NTLM.
5 Click Save Changes.
For more information, see Settings for the Authentication module and Membership in a Windows
domain.
Settings for the Authentication module
This section describes the settings for the Authentication module.
The User Database settings are by default provided for the Authentication module. If you have selected
a different authentication method and renamed the default settings accordingly, there can be settings
named after another authentication method, such as NTLM or LDAP.
Another option is not to rename the default settings, but to keep several settings with different names
and parameter values for the Authentication module.
Note: The settings for the Authentication module are described in the following, beginning with User
Database. This is followed by descriptions of the settings that can be configured for other authentication
methods.
The descriptions follow the order the respective methods take under Authentication Method, which is one of
the sections within each of the settings for the Authentication module.
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