Authenticating Administrative Access

Local Authentication

Administrative access to console, vty, and AUX lines and to HTTP access can be authenticated locally using the following:

Server-Based Authentication

A more scalable method is to use a server-based solution using one of the following methods:

Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting Framework

Authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) is a standards-based framework that you can implement to control who is permitted to access a network (authenticate), what they can do while they are there (authorize), and audit what actions they performed while accessing the network (accounting).