Tuesday 25 October 2011

Test Radius Challenge Response in NTRadPing

If you lack of the Challenge-Response (CR) VPN device, instead you can use NTRadPing to check or show DualShield Radius Server CR feature.

Basically, you need to create a radius logon procedure with two logon steps in DualShield.

With NTRadPing, in the second step, add the State attribute returned from the first step login. Please check the PDF version for the details.

Monday 24 October 2011

Reset DualShield sa Password

In some situations, you may need to reset sa password. For instance, you forget the sa password of DualShield and have no other administratative accounts to login.

You are stuck, aren't you? Luckily, DualShield recently provided a running mode called safe mode in which you can reset the sa password.

Windows Version

Add -Ddual.safe.mode=true in Java Options which can be shown by "tomcat6w.exe //ES//dualshield"

Linux Version

Edit the file "/etc/init.d/dualshield", add "-Ddual.safe.mode=true \" just below the line "-Djava.io.tmpdir=$TMP_DIR \"

Please check this PDF version for the details.