DescriptionThis article explains the difference of behavior between active and passive authentication.
FortiGate has two types of authentication which are dedicated to different protocols:
Active: LDAP, Radius, TACACS+Passive: FSSO, RSSOThey have different behaviors depending on policies.ScopeThis article explains the differences of behavior between active and passive authentication, when policies can
match the traffic. It is not going to explain each method.SolutionFor active authentication, all policies must have: enable authentication for the policy that could match the traffic or enable a captive portal on the ingress interface for the traffic. If this not happen, the traffic is matching the policy without authentication For Passive authentication, if it can be successfully obtain user details, the traffic will do match with the first policy that find because the user is already authenticated.Examples:1) Active authentication
Because the guest group is still not authenticated,
it will not match with the policy with the ID=15, the traffic will go
out for the policy with the ID=16 (because it is not necessary to authenticate).
The user is not going to be asked for authentication.

If passive authentication is used, the traffic
with the users that belongs to the Guest-group will match the policy with
the ID=15 even if the policy with ID=16
does not have authentication enabled because the user is already authenticated.
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