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Connecting to a RADIUS Server

Edit the PowerFolder.config configuration file and add the following lines:

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radius.server=radius.example.com:1812
radius.sharedsecret=sharedsecret
radius.auth=PEAP

(warning) After adding those lines PowerFolder Server needs to be restarted to have the changes become active.

After a restart of PowerFolder Server all login requests via web or clients will be checked against the configured RADIUS Server.

Possible values for the radius.auth parameter: EAPMD5, EAPMSCHAPV2, EAPTLS, EAPTTLS, PEAP, MSCHAPV1, MSCHAPV2, CHAP, PAP

The connection can be configured using the web interface. Choose Preferences > Authentication > RADIUS.

(warning) Please note that you need to be logged in with the admin account to change RADIUS settings.

An explanation of all settings can be found here.

Using multiple authentication sources (Chained authentication)

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To configure the authentication order edit the PowerFolder.config server configuration file and add the following linechoose Preferences > Authentication > Authentication order from the web interface and enter the following values:

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security.auth.order=ldap,radius,database

The above example will have PowerFolder Server try to authenticate user logins against LDAP first, after that it will check RADIUS and the internal/external database as the last option.

Possible For possible values for the security.auth.order parameter: ldap, ldap2, radius, database field check here.