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AAA Application#

Group/Version aaa.eda.nokia.com/v1
Supported OS Nokia SR Linux: 24.10.*, 25.3.*, 25.7.*, 25.10.*, 26.3.*
Nokia SR OS: 24.10.r4+, 25.3.r2+, 25.7.*, 25.10.*, 26.3.*
Arista EOS: 4.33.2f:beta
Cisco NX-OS: 10.5.2:alpha
Catalog nokia-eda/catalog/aaa
Source Code coming soon

AAA stands for "Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting". As the name implies, it covers the following three topics:

  • Determining who someone/something is
  • Defining what someone/something can do
  • Logging what someone/something does

In network operating systems, authentication is usually done through an account consisting of a username and a password and/or private key.

The AAA application provides the following components:

Users and Groups#

Users are identified by their username and a password or private key (authentication). A user is configured on a set of nodes, and is linked to a group. The group defines what the user can or cannot do (authorization).

Info

Node users are a core feature of EDA, and are not discussed in this article.