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How to configure RADIUS user password

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Jens Vandewalle [SLC] [DevOps Enabler]9.44K 17th January 2023 0 Comments

Hi Dojo,

I'm following the steps in Configuring RADIUS settings | DataMiner Docs but have a hard time to understand how to link the users.

Based on the note at the bottom I need to create an user with a certain password. Then I need to match the username in RADIUS, but what about the password? Can the password be different in RADIUS than the one configured on the server or should it match?

Jens Vandewalle [SLC] [DevOps Enabler] Selected answer as best 17th January 2023

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Simon Declerck [SLC] [DevOps Advocate]814 Posted 17th January 2023 0 Comments

Hi Jens,

The documentation mentions that usage of RADIUS necessitates a matching DMA user on the system. This means that there's 2 main ways of using RADIUS with DataMiner.

  1. RADIUS with local users
    This is what you're currently pursuing I believe.
    In this scenario RADIUS has an underlying user directory that is entirely separate from DataMiner. Here you have to create local users on the DataMiner for which the username matches the one that is used for authenticating with RADIUS.
    The password that you assign the local user on creation can differ from the one in RADIUS and is redundant. The local user can not login with this password unless the RADIUS configuration is removed from the DataMiner and the system restarted. So it's still a good idea to give this a proper strong password as it allows a fallback in case of an outage on the RADIUS server.
    When logging into DataMiner, the credentials given will be checked against the RADIUS and the username of the RADIUS user will be used to lookup the matching username of the local user.
  2. RADIUS with LDAP/AD
    If DataMiner is configured to import users through a User Directory then the RADIUS server can be configured to make use of the same directory. The configuration of this varies based on the RADIUS server software that is used.
    This way you can just import the users without needing to create matching local users. DataMiner will then match the domain/username from the credentials used to login to the domain/username that was imported from the directory.

On our next pass through the documentation we'll update this segment to clarify this some more. I'll make a task for this on our backlog.

With Kind Regards,

Jens Vandewalle [SLC] [DevOps Enabler] Selected answer as best 17th January 2023
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