I’ve blogged on using the SSL VPN to renew passwords if they expire before using LDAPS, but I have not blogged on doing this through Radius authentication.
One awesome aspect of this is that by default, the max LDAP servers you can configure on a Fortigate is 10 – so if you have a lot of different domains – as I do with one client – you might be pushed to go to Fortiauthenticator for the ability to have more, or use dual factor. Using Radius to authenticate can help remedy this issue because you can authenticate as many domains as you like behind 1 radius server. You can also have that server allow users to change their password if it expires, or if you set the policy in AD to make the user change their password.
To authenticate many different groups through radius for the SSL VPN you have to configure a vendor specific option. I wrote an entry not long ago on how to do this found here – https://travelingpacket.com/2016/01/26/fortigate-radius-group-authentication/ That was written for 5.2 but same stuff applies to 5.4 and 5.6 .
Once NPS is setup, the Radius server is created on the FGT, User groups are created on the FGT and of course SSL VPN policies are good to – you can modify the server in CLI and set the options to allow passwords to be change if expired.
In this case my server is called Presrv04 – The below is the setup for that server
Then we need to modify the options in CLI
Next I changed my account to force me to change my password at next login – check this out.
There we go! once I change my password to something that meets the complexity requirements of my organization it will allow me directly into the VPN – and change my password.
The Fortigate SSL is an amazing feature, but when users do not log in that often to any internal resources their AD password may expire and the user will not know. What really stinks is if that user has to post data for the month, and logs in at midnight for an 8 a.m. deadline! Luckily Fortigate has the ability to push the LDAP password expiration notification to the user, and can even let them change the password through SSL VPN login.
Steps:
– Get SSL VPN up and going with LDAP Authentication – This has to be an LDAPS connection to change the password, and your account to query LDAP has to be a domain admin!!!
– In CLI modify the LDAP server to allow password expiration notification, and change.
First create or modify your LDAP server in the GUI, and make sure its set to use LDAPS. The image below should be a good guide. Remember, the service account you use to query LDAP does not have to be an admin account, but if you want to change passwords then it does have to be a Domain-Admin. A good idea is to always create a service account to use for the Fortinet to query LDAP. That way if your admin password changes it will not affect this this account.
After that is configured, and tests/querys successfully then lets drop down to CLI and get the following configured.
Config user ldap
edit “Server name”
set password-expiry-warning enable
set password-renewal enable
end
For a look at all the options see picture below:
And that’s it, after this LDAP will push those messages to the client when they log in.
Remember, that the LDAP connection has to use SSL (LDAPS) to change the password.
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