User Groups
A user group is a list of users. Security policies and some VPN configurations only allow access to specified user groups. This restricted access enforces role-based access control (RBAC) to your organization's network and resources. Users must be in a group and that group must be part of the security policy.
In most cases, FortiOS authenticates a user by requesting their username and password. FortiOS checks local user accounts first. Then, if it does not find a match, FortiOS checks the RADIUS, LDAP, and TACACS+ servers that belong to the user group. Authentication succeeds when FortiOS finds a matching username and password. If the user belongs to multiple groups on a server, FortiOS matches those groups as well.
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FortiOS does not allow username overlap between RADIUS, LDAP, and TACACS+ servers. |
The following topics provide information about user groups: