SonicOS 8 Users
- SonicOS 8
- About SonicOS
- About User Management
- Using Local Users and Groups for Authentication
- Using RADIUS for Authentication
- Using LDAP/Active Directory/eDirectory Authentication
- Using RADIUS
- Using TACACS+
- Using Single Sign-On
- What is Single Sign-On?
- Benefits of SonicWall SSO
- Platforms and Supported Standards
- How Does Single Sign-On Work?
- How Does SSO Agent Work?
- How Does Terminal Services Agent Work?
- How Does Browser NTLM Authentication Work?
- How Does RADIUS Accounting for Single-Sign-On Work?
- Installing the Single Sign-On Agent and/or Terminal Services Agent
- Single Sign-On Advanced Features
- Configuring Access Rules
- Managing SonicOS with HTTP Login from a Terminal Server
- Viewing and Managing SSO User Sessions
- Multiple Administrator Support
- Configuring Users Status
- Configuring User Settings
- User Login Settings
- Setting the Authentication Method for Login
- Configuring RADIUS Authentication
- Configuring LDAP
- Configuring TACACS+
- Requiring User Names be Treated as Case-Sensitive
- Preventing Users From Logging in from More than One Location
- Forcing Users to Log In Immediately After Changing Their Passwords
- Displaying User Login Information Since the Last Login
- Setting the Single-Sign-On Methods
- One-Time Password Settings
- Configuring the User Web Login Settings
- Adding URLs to Authentication Bypass
- User Session Settings
- Accounting
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- User Login Settings
- Configuring Local Users and Groups
- Configuring Guest Services
- Configuring Guest Accounts
- Managing Guest Status
- SonicWall Support
Configuring Access Rules
Access rules provide you with the ability to control user access. Rules set from the Policies > Rules > Access Rules page are checked against the user group memberships returned from a SSO LDAP query, and are applied automatically. Access rules are network management tools that allow you to define inbound and outbound access policy, configure user authentication, and enable remote management of the Security Appliance. The Rules > Access Rules page provides a sortable access rule management interface.
More specific policy rules should be given higher priority than general policy rules. The general specificity hierarchy is source, destination, service. User identification elements, for example, user name and corresponding group permissions, are not included in defining the specificity of a policy rule.
By default, the firewall’s stateful packet inspection allows all communication from the LAN to the Internet, and blocks all traffic to the LAN from the Internet.
Additional network access rules can be defined to extend or override the default access rules. For example, access rules can be created that block certain types of traffic such as IRC from the LAN to the WAN, or allow certain types of traffic, such as Lotus Notes database synchronization, from specific hosts on the Internet to specific hosts on the LAN, or restrict use of certain protocols such as Telnet to authorized users on the LAN.
The ability to define network access rules is a powerful tool. Using custom access rules can disable firewall protection or block all access to the Internet. Use caution when creating or deleting network access rules.
For detailed information about access rules, refer to SonicOS 8 Rules and Policies Administration Guide for Classic Mode.
- Automatically Generated Rules for SonicWall SSO
- Accommodating Mac and Linux Users
- Allowing ICMP Pings from a Terminal Server
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