Authenticated and Unauthenticated Roles

The identity management feature supports two default roles—authenticated and unauthenticated. No default rules or policies are configured for these roles, but you can add rules or policies to these roles.

Authenticated identities are known identities that meet the following requirements:

The unauthenticated role applies to all identities that do not match any other default or user-defined role.

For example, the following identities are placed in the unauthenticated role:
Note

Note

The unauthenticated role is not applied to network login and Kerberos users because those users are either authenticated or denied by network login.

One option for configuring the unauthenticated role policy/rule is to allow DNS, DHCP, and Kerberos traffic, and deny all other traffic. This configuration allows identities to attempt log in, and denies access to identities that do not successfully log in.