Example: Configuring Web Authentication

Requirements

Before you begin:

• Define firewall users. See Firewall User Authentication Overview.
• Add the Web authentication HTTP flag under the interface's address hierarchy to enable Web authentication.

Overview

To enable Web authentication, you must specify the IP address of the device hosting the HTTP session. These settings are used if the firewall user accessing a protected resource wants to be authenticated by directly accessing the webserver or Web authentication. The following instructions show how to set up a policy that allows access to the FWClient1 user when traffic encounters a policy that has Web authentication enabled (Policy-W). (See Figure 1.) In this example, FWClient1 has already authenticated through the Web authentication login page.

The FWClient1 firewall user does the following to get authenticated:

1. Points the browser to the Web authentication IP (20.20.20.1) to get authenticated first
2. Starts traffic to access resources specified by the policy-W policy

Figure 1: Web Authentication Example

When you configure the device as described in these instructions and the user successfully authenticates, the screen illustrated in Figure 2 appears.

Figure 2: Web Authentication Success Banner

Configuration

CLI Quick Configuration

To quickly configure this example, copy the following commands, paste them into a text file, remove any line breaks, change any details necessary to match your network configuration, and then copy and paste the commands into the CLI at the [edit] hierarchy level.

Step-by-Step Procedure

1. Configure two interfaces and assign IP addresses to them.

   Note: For this example, it is optional to assign two addresses to the interfaces.

   [edit]
   user@host# set interfaces ge-0/0/1 unit 0 family inet address 20.20.20.1/24
   user@host# set interfaces ge-0/0/1 unit 0 family inet address 20.20.20.3/24 web-authentication http
   user@host# set interfaces fe-5/0/0 unit 0 family inet address 30.30.30.1/24
2. Create the WEBAUTH access profile for the FWClient1 user, specify the user’s password, and define a success banner.
   [edit access]
   user@host# set profile WEBAUTH client FWClient1 firewall-user password pwd
   user@host# set firewall-authentication web-authentication default-profile WEBAUTH
   user@host# set firewall-authentication web-authentication banner success "WEB AUTH LOGIN SUCCESS"
3. Configure security zones.

   Note: For this example, it is optional to configure a second interface for a security zone.

   [edit security zones]
   user@host# set security-zone UT-ZONE host-inbound-traffic system-services all
   user@host# set security-zone UT-ZONE interfaces ge-0/0/1.0 host-inbound-traffic protocols all
   user@host# set security-zone T-ZONE host-inbound-traffic system-services all
   user@host# set security-zone T-ZONE interfaces ge-5/0/0.0 host-inbound-traffic protocols all
4. Assign security policy P1 to the security zones.
   [edit security policies]
   user@host# set from-zone UT-ZONE to-zone T-ZONE policy P1 match source-address any
   user@host# set from-zone UT-ZONE to-zone T-ZONE policy P1 match destination-address any
   user@host# set from-zone UT-ZONE to-zone T-ZONE policy P1 match application any
   user@host# set from-zone UT-ZONE to-zone T-ZONE policy P1 then permit firewall-authentication web-authentication client-match FWClient1
5. Activate the HTTP daemon on your device.
   [edit]
   user@host# set system services web-management http interface ge-0/0/1.0

Results

From configuration mode, confirm your configuration by entering these commands:

• show interfaces
• show access
• show security zones
• show security policies
• show system services

If the output does not display the intended configuration, repeat the configuration instructions in this example to correct it.

For brevity, this show output includes only the configuration that is relevant to this example. Any other configuration on the system has been replaced with ellipses (...).

...
}
ge-0/0/1{
    unit 0 {
        family inet {
            address 20.20.20.1/24 {
            address 20.20.20.3/24 {
                web-authentication http;
            }
        }
    }
}
fe-5/0/0 {
    unit 0 {
        family inet {
            address 30.30.30.1/24;
        }
    }
}
...

profile WEBAUTH { 
    client FWClient1 {
        firewall-user {
            password "$9$XHhxVYGDkf5F"; ## SECRET-DATA
        }
    }
}
firewall-authentication { 
    web-authentication {
        default-profile WEBAUTH;
        banner {
            success "WEB AUTH LOGIN SUCCESS";
        }
    }
}

...
}
security-zone UT-ZONE { 
    host-inbound-traffic {
       system-services {
            all;
        }
    }
    interfaces {
        ge-0/0/1.0 {
            host-inbound-traffic {
                protocols {
                    all;
                }
            }
        }
    }
}
security-zone T-ZONE { 
    host-inbound-traffic {
       system-services {
            all;
        }
    }
    interfaces {
        ge-5/0/0.0 {
            host-inbound-traffic {
                protocols {
                    all;
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

...
from-zone UT-ZONE to-zone T-ZONE {
    policy P1 {
       match {
            source-address any;
            destination-address any;
            application any;
       }
       then {
            permit {
                firewall-authentication {
                    web-authentication {
                        client-match FWClient1;
                    }
                }
            }
       }
    }
}

...
ftp;
ssh;
telnet;
web-management {
    http {
        interface g-0/0/1.0;
    }
}

If you are done configuring the device, enter commit from configuration mode.

Verification

To confirm that the configuration is working properly, perform this task:

• Verifying Firewall User Authentication and Monitoring Users and IP Addresses in the Authentication Table

Verifying Firewall User Authentication and Monitoring Users and IP Addresses in the Authentication Table

Purpose

Display firewall authentication user history and verify the number of firewall users who successfully authenticated and firewall users who failed to log in.

Action

From operational mode, enter these show commands:

History of firewall authentication data:
Authentications: 1
Id Source Ip Date Time Duration Status User
5 20.20.20.2      2010-04-24 01:08:57 0:10:30    Success  FWClient1 

Username: FWClient1
Source IP: 20.20.20.2
Authentication state: Success
Authentication method: Web-authentication 
Access start date: 2010-10-12
Access start time: 21:24:02
Duration of user access: 0:00:24
Source zone: N/A
Destination zone: N/A
Access profile: WEBAUTH
Bytes sent by this user: 0
Bytes received by this user: 2660

Firewall authentication data:
Total users in table: 1
Id Source Ip Src zone Dst zone Profile Age Status User
4 20.20.20.2     N/A  N/A   WEBAUTH     1 Success   FWClient1

Username: FWClient1
Source IP: 20.20.20.2
Authentication state: Success
Authentication method: Web-authentication 
Age: 3
Access time remaining: 9
Source zone: N/A
Destination zone: N/A
Access profile: WEBAUTH
Interface Name: ge-0/0/1.0
Bytes sent by this user: 0
Bytes received by this user: 1521