radius-server auth-type

Description

Enables the CHAP or PAP authentication protocol, which is used for communication with the RADIUS servers, at the global level. You can override this command with a fine-grained per server auth-type configuration.

The no form of this command resets the global authentication mechanism for RADIUS to PAP, which is the default authentication mechanism for RADIUS.

Command context

config

Parameters

auth-type {pap | chap}

Selects either the PAP or CHAP authentication protocol.

Authority

Administrators

Examples

Authenticating CHAP:

switch(config)# radius-server auth-type chap

Authenticating PAP:

switch(config)# radius-server auth-type pap