AAA Authentication


Scenario:

As part of the security team you are always looking for ways to improve security within the company. You want to get rid of all the local vty/console logins within your network so you decide to setup a radius server. Routers should use the external radius server for authentication from now on…let’s see if you can secure this one!

Goal:

  • All IP addresses have been configured for you, look at the topology picture for the IP addresses.
  • Configure router Fuzz so it uses the (fictional) radius server at IP address 192.168.23.3. Updates should be sourced from the loopback0 interface.
  • Configure router Fuzz so console access uses a local username ‘console’ with password ‘vault’.
  • Configure router Fuzz so VTY access uses the radius server, when it fails it should switch to a local username ‘telnet’ with password ‘unsafe’.
  • Configure router Fuzz so everyone sees the message “ID required” when they try to login using AAA.

Topology:

AAA Authentication{pub}

Configuration Files

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Written by René Molenaar - CCIE #41726

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13 Comments

  1. I downloaded the zip file but the topology is empty and there are no router configs?

  2. there is no tutorial video in many parts of security.

    please prepare these files.

    thank you

    1. I Agree… many interesting and important videos without solutions…

  3. Hi bro, could you help me out with this here?

    Lab requirements states to create two username and password, one for console and one for telnet. Easy.

    Problem is, do I have to restrict each to only the line it is authenticating? From my understanding, all the username passwords go into the "local" pool, and we can configure telnet to use radius and fall back to radius. However, are we able to define different local pools such that one pool is for telnet and one pool is for console?

  4. Rene hello, let me know when you upload the video with the solution for this lab.

  5. aaa new-model
    aaa authentication banner ^C ID Required ^C
    aaa authentication login CONSOLE local
    aaa authentication login VTY group radius local
    aaa authentication enable default group radius

  6. line con 0
    login authentication CONSOLE

    line vty 0 4
    login authentication VTY

    username console password 0 vault
    username telnet password 0 unsafe

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