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December 23, 2020

Technical Tip: Action to take when the number of allowed user authenticated sessions is reached

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Description


This article descirbes the action to take when the number of allowed user authenticated sessions is reached.

 

Scope

 

FortiGate.

Solution


'auth-session-limit' option sets the Action to take when the number of allowed user-authenticated sessions is reached.

SyntaxL

 

config system global
    set auth-session-limit { block-new | logout-inactive }       <----- Default is set to block-new.
end

 

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block-new: Block new user authentication attempts.
logout-inactive: Logout the most inactive user-authenticated sessions.

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