Manage authentication policies

Authentication policies determine the order and conditions in which various authentication mechanisms are used to successfully authenticate a user. We can view, add, modify, and delete authentication policies.

Keep the following considerations in mind when you work with authentication policies:

• The authentication policy name must begin with an alphabetic character. Do not use control characters, leading and trailing blanks, and the following special characters ~ ! @ # $ % ^ & * ( )  + | ` = \ ; :  " ' < > ? , [  ] { } / anywhere in the name.
• We cannot modify or delete predefined policies.

Steps

1. Log in to the local management interface.
2. Click AAC.
3. Under Policy, click Authentication.
4. Perform any of the following actions:

   Add an authentication policy:

   Click . The Authentication Policy Editor opens. See Create an authentication policy.

   Modify a custom authentication policy:

   1. Select the authentication policy that we want to modify.

   2. Click . The Authentication Policy Editor opens.
   3. Modify any of the authentication policy properties.

   4. Click Save.

   Delete a custom authentication policy:

   1. Select an authentication policy from the list. To select multiple authentication policies, press and hold the Ctrl key and select several authentication policies

   2. Click . A message prompts us to confirm the deletion.

   3. Click Delete.

What to do next

We can use any authentication policy in the access control policy. See Create an access control policy.

Parent topic: Authentication policies