Windows 2000 Administration in a Nutshell

Name

aaaa Context

Synopsis

Configures Internet Authentication Services (IAS), which is the Microsoft implementation of Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS) in Windows 2000. The “aaaa” stands here for “authentication, authorization, auditing, and accounting” (and has nothing to do with the AAAA record of DNS as defined in RFC 1886!)

Subcontexts

None

Commands

In addition to global-context commands, the following additional commands are available in this context:

? or help

Lists these commands

set config blob= data

data sets the configuration of the aaaa engine and must be in Base64 format (as, for instance, that dumped by the show command)

show [config | version]

Dumps the configuration of the aaaa engine in Base64 form or displays the version of the engine (currently Version 0)

Examples

C:\>netsh
netsh>aaaa
aaaa>show config

# aaaa configuration script.
# Known Issues and limitations:
# Import/Export between different versions is not be supported.
# IAS.MDB Version = 0
pushd aaaa
set config blob=\
/bEAAAEAAFN0YW4AZGFyZCBKZXQIIERCAZAAtW4DAGJgCcJV6alnAHJAPwCcfp+QAP+FmjHF\
ebrtADC838ydY9nkAMOfRvuKvE7nAHTsNzzLnPqnANEo5nI5imA1ABt7NpT937EWAHsTQ64g\
...
...
A7ACI/wD\
\
*
popd
# End of aaaa show config
aaaa>