Authentication

Learn how to manage user and device authentication.

About Authentication

Important: Support for NTLM Authentication Methods Microsoft has deprecated the following New Technology LAN Manager (NTLM) components: Negotiate Kerberos/NTLM, includi...
About authentication and authentication policies Authentication determines who the user is and their group membership, if configured or received from an external sou...
See users currently authenticated with Smoothwall   See a list of end users who have authenticated with Smoothwall services on the Services > Authentication > User a...
When to use Authentication Exceptions   Web requests are usually required to pass an authentication check. Smoothwall then: Matches the user with the web...
Authentication Methods   Authentication is used to identify the end user and apply the right policies. When adding authentication policies,...
User Identification is wrong and users browse with the wrong access   Some authentication methods reliably detect when a user begins browsing, but struggle to detect when they have sto...
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Manage Authentication Policies and Exceptions

Manage your global authentication settings You can change the timeout value and other authentication settings. Go to Services > Authentication > Settings. Ed...
Add Web Proxy authentication policies You can create non-transparent and transparent authentication policies to identify end users. Non-transparent prox...
Reorder, edit or delete Web Proxy authentication policies   You can edit, turn off or delete your Web Proxy authentication policies from Web Proxy > Authentication > Manage p...
Add or delete Authentication Exceptions   You can add Authentication Exceptions to prevent Smoothwall from running an authentication check on specific conte...

Directories

Manage users in groups and directories   You can sync your directories with the Cloud Portal Admin Panel to quickly update user lists as students and staff...
Add or edit User Groups   User Groups are collections of end users you can use to configure features in Smoothwall Filter or Monitor. Smoot...
Google and Azure Directories and Group mappings in a Hybrid setup   The platform in which you set up Google and Azure Directories will impact how directory group mappings are synced....
Add, edit or delete an Azure Directory   You can add an Azure Directory to manage groups of users for your policies in Smoothwall Filter or Monitor. Config...
Add, edit or delete a Google Directory   You can add a Google Directory to manage groups of users for your policies in Smoothwall Filter or Monitor. Config...
Add, edit or delete an IDex Directory To add an IDex Directory to your list of Directories, you must do so from the On-Premise Appliance. You can choose ...
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BYOD

Set up RADIUS Authentication for BYO devices Smoothwall can act as a RADIUS Accounting service and, if connected to Active Directory, a RADIUS Authentication serv...
Add, edit or delete BYOD Access control rules Once you set up RADIUS Authentication, you can use Access control rules to block BYO device users in a specific Use...

IDex

Important: Move from IDex Client to supported alternatives IDex Client was used to tunnel web browsing traffic from a client device to Smoothwall On-Premise filtering. As of 16...
Set up IDex for Smoothwall On-Premise Appliance Use ID Indexing (IDex) to identify already authenticated users in Active Directory domain networks. IDex has three co...
Set up IDex Agent to sync Active Directory for Cloud-only setups You can install the IDex Agent for Smoothwall Cloud Filter and/or Monitor to access the users and Directory groups in...
Add, edit or delete an IDex Directory To add an IDex Directory to your list of Directories, you must do so from the On-Premise Appliance. You can choose ...

SSL Login

Customise the non-SSL or SSL Login Page You can customise your SSL and non-SSL Login pages with your organisation’s branding or welcome message.   Note To...
Set up Azure sign-in on the Login page This article details how to set up Azure authentication, so users can sign in using the Azure sign-In button on the ...
Certificate error on the SSL Login Page   Users may see a certificate error when trying to access the SSL Login page if their device doesn’t trust the cert...
Set up Google sign-in on the Login page This article details how to set up Google authentication, so users can sign in using the Google sign-In button on th...

Kerberos

Set up authentication with Kerberos Authentication Scripts   You can use Kerberos Authentication Scripts to authenticate Windows and macOS users who are members of an Active D...