Technical Note: Authentication Page Looping Issue

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Article Id 197967

Description

This article explains cause of Multiple http redirections when local authentication is enabled.

In the FortiGate version 5.6.4 and above by default, auth-src-mac option is enabled in user settings.

- Source MAC check for firewall authentication as an enhancement of security.

- This may cause issues as the source MAC may be changed after authentication.

Solution

The commands to disable auth-src-mac were added from 6.0.2 version to resolve the issue

#config user setting

#set auth-src-mac disable

#end

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