Authenticating a VPN Client without Radius or AAA

[DrGreen26]

I have an itneresting question. I am setting up a brand new pix 501 firewall and would like to allow users to logon from home. Problem I see is that all of cisco's documentation requires a RADIUS or AAA server.. Is there a different configuration for thist that does not require one or the other, or is there something I can setup cheaply on a windows xp network (no windows servers) to allow authenitcation?

Thanks



Mark C. Greenwood, CNE
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[khaiyang]

apart from TACACS+ and Radius, PIX also support local authentication. It means the username/password is stored locally inside pix configuration.
Alternatively, u can download a 90days trial of Cisco Secure Access Control Server CSACS software from cisco website.

 

[khaiyang]

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products...tech_note09186a00800949d6.shtml#authen_author

 

[dopehead]

Also, windows servers comes with IAS as a part of the license IAS can be used for user validation on AD via a PIX VPN setup


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