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Customizing a Banner

Note: In this example, you change the message that appears in the browser to indicate that a user has successfully authenticated after successfully logging in through Web authentication. The new message is “ Web Authentication is successful.” If the authentication fails, then the new message reads “ Authentication failed.”

Before You Begin

For background information, read Understanding Banner Customization.

To customize a banner, use either the J-Web or CLI configuration editor.

This topic covers:

J-Web Configuration

To specify the banner text for failed pass-through authentication through FTP using the J-Web configuration editor:

  1. Select Configure>CLI Tools>Point and Click CLI.
  2. Next to Access, click Configure or Edit.
  3. Next to Firewall Authentication, click Configure or Edit.
  4. Next to Pass through, click Configure or Edit.
  5. In the Default profile box, type Prof1.
  6. Next to Ftp, click Configure or Edit.
  7. Next to Banner, click Configure or Edit.
  8. In the Fail box, type “ Authentication failed” and click OK.

To specify the banner text for successful Web authentication:

  1. Select Configure>CLI Tools>Point and Click CLI.
  2. Next to Access, click Configure or Edit.
  3. Next to Firewall Authentication, click Configure or Edit.
  4. Next to Web authentication, click Configure or Edit.
  5. In the Default profile box, type Prof1.
  6. Next to Banner, click Configure or Edit.
  7. In the Success box, type “ Web Authentication is successful” and click OK.
  8. If you are finished configuring the device, commit the configuration.
  9. To check the configuration, see Verifying Firewall User Authentication

CLI Configuration

To customize the banner text, do the following:

  1. Specify the banner text for failed pass-through authentication through FTP.
    user@host# set access firewall-authentication pass-through default-profile prof_1
    user@host# set access firewall-authentication pass-through ftp banner fail “ Authentication failed”
  2. Specify the banner text successful Web authentication.
    user@host# set access web-authentication default-profile prof_1
    user@host# set access web-authentication banner success “ Web Authentication is successful”
  3. If you are finished configuring the device, commit the configuration.
  4. To check the configuration, see Verifying Firewall User Authentication.

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