How Users Authenticate
Now that I have discussed passwords, I can talk about the various ways FireWall-1 asks users for passwords. Demonstrations of each method are provided in the following subsections.
Explaining User Authentication
User Authentication allows you to provide authentication for five different services: Telnet, rlogin, HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP. FireWall-1 provides user-level authentication via the appropriate Security Server processes. These processes are invoked when FireWall-1 needs to authenticate a connection. The Security Server authenticates the session, then passes it on to the remote server.
For example, if you wanted to Telnet to 172.29.0.44 and you want FireWall-1 to require authentication, the following exchange would occur: ...
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