fortinet.fortios.fortios_authentication_setting module – Configure authentication setting in Fortinet’s FortiOS and FortiGate.

Note

This module is part of the fortinet.fortios collection (version 2.3.4).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install fortinet.fortios. You need further requirements to be able to use this module, see Requirements for details.

To use it in a playbook, specify: fortinet.fortios.fortios_authentication_setting.

New in fortinet.fortios 2.0.0

Synopsis

  • This module is able to configure a FortiGate or FortiOS (FOS) device by allowing the user to set and modify authentication feature and setting category. Examples include all parameters and values need to be adjusted to datasources before usage. Tested with FOS v6.0.0

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

  • ansible>=2.14

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

access_token

string

Token-based authentication. Generated from GUI of Fortigate.

authentication_setting

dictionary

Configure authentication setting.

active_auth_scheme

string

Active authentication method (scheme name). Source authentication.scheme.name.

auth_https

string

Enable/disable redirecting HTTP user authentication to HTTPS.

Choices:

  • "enable"

  • "disable"

captive_portal

string

Captive portal host name. Source firewall.address.name.

captive_portal6

string

IPv6 captive portal host name. Source firewall.address6.name.

captive_portal_ip

string

Captive portal IP address.

captive_portal_ip6

string

Captive portal IPv6 address.

captive_portal_port

integer

Captive portal port number (1 - 65535).

captive_portal_ssl_port

integer

Captive portal SSL port number (1 - 65535).

captive_portal_type

string

Captive portal type.

Choices:

  • "fqdn"

  • "ip"

cert_auth

string

Enable/disable redirecting certificate authentication to HTTPS portal.

Choices:

  • "enable"

  • "disable"

cert_captive_portal

string

Certificate captive portal host name. Source firewall.address.name.

cert_captive_portal_ip

string

Certificate captive portal IP address.

cert_captive_portal_port

integer

Certificate captive portal port number (1 - 65535).

integer

Persistent web portal cookie maximum age in minutes (30 - 10080 (1 week)).

integer

Refresh rate divider of persistent web portal cookie . Refresh value = cookie-max-age/cookie-refresh-div.

dev_range

list / elements=dictionary

Address range for the IP based device query.

name

string / required

Address name. Source firewall.address.name firewall.addrgrp.name.

string

Enable/disable persistent cookie on IP based web portal authentication .

Choices:

  • "enable"

  • "disable"

string

Enable/disable persistent cookie on web portal authentication .

Choices:

  • "enable"

  • "disable"

sso_auth_scheme

string

Single-Sign-On authentication method (scheme name). Source authentication.scheme.name.

update_time

string

Time of the last update.

user_cert_ca

list / elements=dictionary

CA certificate used for client certificate verification.

name

string / required

CA certificate list. Source vpn.certificate.ca.name.

enable_log

boolean

Enable/Disable logging for task.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

member_path

string

Member attribute path to operate on.

Delimited by a slash character if there are more than one attribute.

Parameter marked with member_path is legitimate for doing member operation.

member_state

string

Add or delete a member under specified attribute path.

When member_state is specified, the state option is ignored.

Choices:

  • "present"

  • "absent"

vdom

string

Virtual domain, among those defined previously. A vdom is a virtual instance of the FortiGate that can be configured and used as a different unit.

Default: "root"

Notes

Note

  • Legacy fortiosapi has been deprecated, httpapi is the preferred way to run playbooks

Examples

- hosts: fortigates
  collections:
    - fortinet.fortios
  connection: httpapi
  vars:
   vdom: "root"
   ansible_httpapi_use_ssl: yes
   ansible_httpapi_validate_certs: no
   ansible_httpapi_port: 443
  tasks:
  - name: Configure authentication setting.
    fortios_authentication_setting:
      vdom:  "{{ vdom }}"
      authentication_setting:
        active_auth_scheme: "<your_own_value> (source authentication.scheme.name)"
        auth_https: "enable"
        captive_portal: "<your_own_value> (source firewall.address.name)"
        captive_portal_ip: "<your_own_value>"
        captive_portal_ip6: "<your_own_value>"
        captive_portal_port: "7830"
        captive_portal_ssl_port: "7831"
        captive_portal_type: "fqdn"
        captive_portal6: "<your_own_value> (source firewall.address6.name)"
        cert_auth: "enable"
        cert_captive_portal: "<your_own_value> (source firewall.address.name)"
        cert_captive_portal_ip: "<your_own_value>"
        cert_captive_portal_port: "7832"
        cookie_max_age: "480"
        cookie_refresh_div: "2"
        dev_range:
         -
            name: "default_name_19 (source firewall.address.name firewall.addrgrp.name)"
        ip_auth_cookie: "enable"
        persistent_cookie: "enable"
        sso_auth_scheme: "<your_own_value> (source authentication.scheme.name)"
        update_time: "<your_own_value>"
        user_cert_ca:
         -
            name: "default_name_25 (source vpn.certificate.ca.name)"

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key

Description

build

string

Build number of the fortigate image

Returned: always

Sample: "1547"

http_method

string

Last method used to provision the content into FortiGate

Returned: always

Sample: "PUT"

http_status

string

Last result given by FortiGate on last operation applied

Returned: always

Sample: "200"

mkey

string

Master key (id) used in the last call to FortiGate

Returned: success

Sample: "id"

name

string

Name of the table used to fulfill the request

Returned: always

Sample: "urlfilter"

path

string

Path of the table used to fulfill the request

Returned: always

Sample: "webfilter"

revision

string

Internal revision number

Returned: always

Sample: "17.0.2.10658"

serial

string

Serial number of the unit

Returned: always

Sample: "FGVMEVYYQT3AB5352"

status

string

Indication of the operation’s result

Returned: always

Sample: "success"

vdom

string

Virtual domain used

Returned: always

Sample: "root"

version

string

Version of the FortiGate

Returned: always

Sample: "v5.6.3"

Authors

  • Link Zheng (@chillancezen)

  • Jie Xue (@JieX19)

  • Hongbin Lu (@fgtdev-hblu)

  • Frank Shen (@frankshen01)

  • Miguel Angel Munoz (@mamunozgonzalez)

  • Nicolas Thomas (@thomnico)