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SafeNet Agent for FreeRADIUS

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SafeNet Agent for FreeRADIUS

The SafeNet Agent for FreeRADIUS is a highly secure, enterprise authentication agent that enables RADIUS clients to communicate with SafeNet Authentication Service (SAS) and SafeNet Trusted Access (STA) using SSL/TLS.

This document explains in detail how to install and configure FreeRADIUS agent to authenticate against SAS or STA.

The agent uses an encrypted key file to communicate with the SafeNet server. This ensures that all authentication attempts made against the server are from valid recognized agents. To accomplish this, a key file is generated at the SafeNet server and provided or loaded at the agent.

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The following steps broadly depict the flow of actions for the agent solution:

  1. The client sends an authentication request to the FreeRADIUS agent.

  2. The FreeRADIUS agent sends a web-service request to the SafeNet server.

  3. If authentication is successful, SafeNet server returns an affirmative response to the FreeRADIUS agent.

  4. The FreeRADIUS agent sends acceptance of the authentication request to the client.

    FreeRADIUS agent flow

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The information in this document applies to:

copy link to clipboardSafeNet servers

  • SafeNet Authentication Service PCE/SPE 3.7 and later (SAS)

  • SafeNet Trusted Access (STA)

copy link to clipboardSupported Platforms

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3

  • CentOS 7.3

  • CentOS 8.3

copy link to clipboardSupported RADIUS Protocols

  • PAP

  • MSCHAP-v2

  • PEAP

copy link to clipboardSupported LDAP Server for on-prem password validation

  • Microsoft Active Directory