FortiGate LDAPS Authentication Failure
Jan29

FortiGate LDAPS Authentication Failure

KB ID 0001733 Problem Here’s a brief one that tripped me up a couple of weeks ago, I was deploying FortiGate LDAPS authentication for some FortiClient SSL VPN connections into a FortiGate firewall like so; Despite my best efforts I was getting authentication failures? If I tested the username and password in the GUI web management portal, that worked fine? Testing FortiGate LDAPS First step is to test authentication at command...

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AnyConnect: Unauthorized Connection Mechanism
Aug27

AnyConnect: Unauthorized Connection Mechanism

KB ID 0001699 Problem I was assisting a colleague to setup some AnyConnect for a client this afternoon, when all of a sudden I was met with this; VPN Logon denied, unauthorised connection mechanism, contact your administrator Solution This was a confusing one, I replicated the problem on my own test firewall. All I had done was change the AAA method from LOCAL to LDAP? It took me a while to figure out what was going on? The reason why...

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Cisco AnyConnect – Allow Domain Password Change via LDAP
Jan14

Cisco AnyConnect – Allow Domain Password Change via LDAP

KB ID 0001273  Problem   If you have remote users who connect via VPN, and a policy that forces them to change their password periodically, this can result in them getting locked out without the ability to change their password (externally). If your Cisco ASA is using LDAP to authenticate your users, then you can use your remote AnyConnect VPN solution to let them reset their passwords remotely. Solution Standard LDAP runs over TCP...

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Cisco – LDAP AAA Error ‘AAA Server has been removed”
Jan11

Cisco – LDAP AAA Error ‘AAA Server has been removed”

KB ID 0001271  Problem Seen while attempting to test AAA authentication via LDAP to a Windows domain Controller. Authentication test to host {IP-Address} failed. Following error occurred –  ERROR: Authentication Server not responding: AAA Server has been removed Solution This is a terribly ambiguous error! What it means is that the ASA cannot bind to active directory, either because; The ASA bind account password is wrong. The...

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Cisco AnyConnect – With Google Authenticator 2 Factor Authentication
Nov10

Cisco AnyConnect – With Google Authenticator 2 Factor Authentication

KB ID 0001256  Problem This was asked as a question on Experts Exchange this week, and it got my interest. A quick search turned up a bunch of posts that said, yes this is possible, and you deploy it with FreeRADIUS and it works great. The problem was, a lot of the information is a little out of date, and some of it is ‘wrong enough’ to make the non-technical types give up. But I persevered, and got it to work. Disclaimer:...

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