Activate Cache for Callback or Multilink

When using callback or multilink, the Access Controller asks the AAA Server for two authentications with the same credentials.

To avoid a user signing in twice, you can activate a cache where you can set the number of seconds you want to maintain the user’s user ID / password as valid. As soon as a user ID / password pair has been used in the cache, the system automatically destroys them.

Thus, a user ID/password pair is good for use twice, but only for as many seconds as you provide, depending on your equipment requirements.

By default, the setting is zero (0). You must change this setting to enable this option.

  1. Find the following entry in the database registry (server side):

    • For 32-bit platforms:

      • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ActivCard\ActivPack\ActivPackServer\SessionCacheTimeout

    • For 64-bit platforms:

      • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\ActivCard\ActivPack\ActivPackServer\SessionCacheTimeout

      Note: AAA Server registry keys on 64-bit platforms use the root path: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\ActivCard\..

  2. Set it to the number of seconds to maintain the user’s user ID / password in the cache.

    To reduce the security gap this creates as much as possible, this only works if the user’s Authorization profile contains one of the following:

    • One attribute containing the keyword "callback" or "dialback."
    • An attribute/value pair corresponding to protocol/multilink (not case-sensitive).