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ORIGINAL: abc987 The docs sometimes have not all details. The relationship is between the " trusted hosts" and " administrative access" configured at the interface settings.Yes, that' s also my conclusion. However, it' s not only a matter of " details" , it' s totally misleading. They need to rectify their documentation.
ORIGINAL: Maik firmware you are mentioning is 4 MR2.Yes, my fortigate firmware is v4.0,build0346,120606 (MR2 Patch 12) Are you implying that this problem is solved in a newer version?
ORIGINAL: Maik see a ping to a fortigate as an administrative task. so only " admins" are allowed to do that.Well, maybe, but it' s a matter of viewpoint and interpretation, and therefore it' s not objective enough. And there' s a flaw in this reasoning of yours: the ping works with whatever admin (because you only need to put IP address in any trusted hosts of any admin account). But there' s no login associated to a ping, how can you be sure that only admins are allowed to do that?
But there' s no login associated to a ping, how can you be sure that only admins are allowed to do that?It' s only dependent to the trusted hosts. If you have 0.0.0.0/0 in there (default) and have admin access boxes checked everyone can " connect" via http, https, ssh, ping... Login as a admin is after connecting. So ping works for everyone. Be shure which admin accesses you check on WAN-Interface
FCNSP/WCSP
ORIGINAL: abc987Of course I understood all the implications (and complications) once I found out the workaround. My time is limited so I' m not going to comment on this. So I' ll let you think about it and see by yourself how this setting is bad and useless.But there' s no login associated to a ping, how can you be sure that only admins are allowed to do that?It' s only dependent to the trusted hosts. If you have 0.0.0.0/0 in there (default) and have admin access boxes checked everyone can " connect" via http, https, ssh, ping... Login as a admin is after connecting. So ping works for everyone. Be shure which admin accesses you check on WAN-InterfaceIf you need remote-access at WAN be shure no admin has 0.0.0.0/0 (restrict all admins to remote IP or privat IP)
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