(Optional) Configuring the User Name Format
Context
- MAC address: When the MAC address is used as the user name for MAC address authentication, the password can be the MAC address or a self-defined character string.
- Fixed user name: Regardless of users' MAC addresses, all users have a fixed name and password specified by the administrator as an identity for authentication. Many users may be authenticated on the same interface. In this case, all users requiring MAC address authentication on the interface use the same fixed user name, and the server must only configure one user account to authenticate all users. This is applicable to a network environment with reliable access clients.
- DHCP option: The device uses the DHCP option field specified by the user and a fixed password rather than the MAC address of the user as an identity for authentication.
If fixed user names are configured in the VLANIF interface view, Eth-Trunk interface view or port group view, the password must be set.
If a MAC address is configured as the user name in the port group view, the password cannot be set.
If configured in the system view, the user name format is valid for commands on all interfaces; if configured in the interface view, the user name format is valid for commands on this interface only. If configured in the interface view and system view at the same time, the user name format configured in the interface view has higher priority.
Procedure
- Run system-view
The system view is displayed.
- Configure the user name format in the system or interface
view.
- Run mac-authen username { fixed username [ password cipher password ] | macaddress [ format { with-hyphen [ normal ] [ colon ] | without-hyphen } [ uppercase ] [ password cipher password ] ] | dhcp-option option-code { circuit-id | remote-id } * [ separate separate ] [ format-hex ] password cipher password }
The user name format is set for MAC address authentication.
By default, a MAC address without hyphens (-) or colons (:) is used as the user name and password for MAC address authentication.
When the user name format in MAC address authentication is configured, ensure that the authentication server supports this format.
- Run mac-authen username { fixed username [ password cipher password ] | macaddress [ format { with-hyphen [ normal ] [ colon ] | without-hyphen } [ uppercase ] [ password cipher password ] ] | dhcp-option option-code { circuit-id | remote-id } * [ separate separate ] [ format-hex ] password cipher password }