RSA
Authentication Agent Software
Protecting Corporate Resources with Strong Authentication
In today’s competitive environment the need to provide network, system and application security is essential. RSA® Authentication Agent software enables e-business by controlling access to corporate networks, web applications and operating systems. Used in conjunction with RSA SecurID® Authenticators and the RSA® Authentication Manager software, RSA Authentication Agent software protects sensitive data assets stored within the enterprise from unauthorized access.
Protect Multiple Resources with a Single RSA SecurID Authenticator:
RSA Authentication Agent software intercepts access requests—whether local or remote—from users or groups of users and directs them to the RSA Authentication Manager program for authentication. Once verified, permission to access protected resources is granted.
Seamlessly integrated with existing systems, applications and infrastructure, RSA Authentication Agent software is embedded into an array of remote access servers, VPN’s, firewalls, web servers and more. Today, you can easily enable the RSA Authentication Agent software built into some 300 RSA SecurID Ready™ products from over 200 leading manufacturers. Once invoked, the RSA Authentication Agent technology instantly protects that resource with RSA SecurID® two-factor authentication.
A wide range of RSA Authentication Agent options are available to protect Microsoft® Windows® systems, Unix servers and web applications.
Software tools are available for organizations to develop customized applications, and RSA Security Professional Services is available to help with special requests.
RSA Authentication Agents:
- RSA Authentication Agents for Microsoft Windows
- RSA Authentication Agent 5.3 for Web for Sun Java System Web Server
- RSA Authentication Agent 5.3 for Web for Apache Web Server
- RSA Authentication Agent 7.0 for Web for Apache Web Server
- RSA Authentication Agent 5.3 for Web for Internet Information Services
- RSA Authentication Agent 7.0 for Web for Internet Information Services
- RSA Authentication Agent 2.1 for NMAS
- RSA Authentication Agents for UNIX/Linux
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Download the RSA Authentication Agent Software Datasheet (PDF).
Platform Support Matrix:
In addition to the fully supported configurations listed below, RSA provides limited support for vendor service packs and maintenance releases, until full support is either officially declared or support is declined due to unexpected architectural issues, vendor bugs, or incompatibilities. Limited support means that RSA attempts to reproduce and resolve problems on a fully supported environment. If the problem can be reproduced on the supported environment, RSA works with the customer to resolve the problem and log a bug if appropriate. If the environment becomes suspect during the problem resolution process, the customer is required to move to a fully supported environment to further isolate the problem and to proceed with the problem resolution process.
| RSA® Authentication Agent | Version | Description | Platform | Operating System |
| Web Server Authentication | ||||
| RSA Authentication Agent 7.0 for Web for Apache Web Server | 7.0 | Apache Web Server 2.2.4 and 2.2.6 | Intel X86 | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (32-bit), 5.0 and 5.1 (32 and 64-bit) |
| RSA Authentication Agent 7.0 for Web for Internet Information Services | 7.0 | Internet Information Services 7.0, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 SP1 , Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 SP1 | Intel Xeon and AMD Opteron | Windows 2008 32 and 64-bit |
| RSA Authentication Agent for Web for Sun Java System Web Server | 5.3 | Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 | UltraSPARC | Sun® Solaris™ 8 and 9 |
| RSA Authentication Agent for Web for Apache Web Server | 5.2 | Apache Web Server 1.3.29 with mod_ssl2.8.14 | UltraSPARC | Sun® Solaris™ 8 |
| Intel® | Red Hat™
Linux® 7.3 Red Hat™ Enterprise Linux® 3.0 AS/ES |
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| 5.3 | Apache Web Server 2.0.52 | UltraSPARC | Sun® Solaris™ 8 | |
| Intel® | Red Hat™ Enterprise Linux® 3.0 and 4.0 AS/ES | |||
| Apache Web Server 2.0.59 | Intel® | Red Hat™
Enterprise Linux® 3.0 and
4.0 AS/ES |
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| UltraSPARC | Sun® Solaris™ 9 and 10 | |||
| RSA Authentication Agent for Web for Microsoft (Internet Information Services) | 5.3 | Microsoft® IIS 5.0 | Intel® | Windows® 2000 (SP4) |
| Microsoft® IIS 6.0 | Intel® | Windows® 2003 Standard & Enterprise (SP1 and SP2) Editions, Windows® 2003 R2 Standard & Enterprise (SP2) Editions, Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 ActiveSync | ||
| Intel® Xeon AMD Opteron | Windows® 2003 (SP1) 64-bit Standard & Enterprise Editions, Windows® 2003 R2 (SP2)64-bit Enterprise Editions, Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 ActiveSync | |||
| Local and Remote Authentication | ||||
| RSA Authentication Agent for Microsoft Windows | 7.0.1 | Local login, unlock desktop with PIN and terminal services. Supports online & offline authentication with RSA SecurID. | 32-bit (x86) and 64-bit (x64) processors | Windows® 7 (32/64-bit) – Enterprise and Professional Editions Windows® Vista SP2 (32/64bit) – Business and Enterprise Editions Windows® 2008 Server R2 (64-bit) – Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter and Web Server Editions Windows® 2008 Server (32/64-bit) – Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter and Web Server Editions |
| 6.4.2 | Local login, unlock desktop with PIN. Supports online & offline authentication with RSA SecurID. | 64-bit (x64) processors | Windows® 2003 R2 (SP2) 64-bit Standard & Enterprise Editions Windows XP (SP2) 64-bit | |
| 6.1.3 | Local login, unlock desktop with PIN, terminal services, remote access, & wireless LANs. Supports online & offline authentication with RSA SecurID. | 32-bit (x86) processors | Windows® Server 2003 (SP1 and SP2), Windows® Server 2003 R2 (SP1 and SP2), Windows® Server 2000 (SP4), Windows® XP (SP2) | |
| RSA EAP Client for Microsoft Windows | 7.0 | SecurID EAP plug-in for network authentication. Supports VPN, wireless, and dial-up connections | 32-bit (x86) processors | Windows® Vista 32-bit |
| 7.1 | SecurID EAP plug-in for network authentication. Supports VPN, wireless, and dial-up connections | x86 processors | Windows® Vista 64-bit, Windows® 7 32-bit, Windows® 7 64-bit | |
| RSA Authentication Agent for UNIX | 5.2 | Shell authentication | UltraSPARC | Sun Solaris 8 and 9 |
| RISC/6000® PowerPC® | IBM® AIX® 5L v5.1 and v5.2 | |||
| PA-RISC 2.x | HP-UX 11i | |||
| RSA Authentication Agent for PAM | 7.0 | Standard Tools: login, dtlogin, telnet, su, ftp, sudo, rlogin, ssh, sftp and scp. Open SSH Tools: sftp, ssh, scp |
Intel® Xeon AMD Opteron | RedHat Enterprise Linux 4.8 (AS and ES) (32-bit and 64-bit) RedHat Enterprise Linux 5.5 (32-bit and 64-bit) SuSE Enterprise Linux 11 (32-bit and 64-bit) |
| Intel Xeon AMD Opteron (32-bit and 64-bit) | Solaris 10 with Zones We ship only 32-bit binaries on Intel and AMD. Only 32-bit tools are supported on 64-bit machines. |
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| VMWare Vsphere 4 | RedHat Enterprise Linux 5.5 (32-bit and 64-bit) SuSE Enterprise Linux 11 (32-bit and 64-bit) |
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| UltraSPARC 64-bit | Solaris 10 with Zones | |||
| IBM POWER6 | AIX 6.1 TL5 (SP2) (64-bit) AIX 5.3 TL12 (SP1) (32-bit and 64-bit) We ship only 32-bit binaries on AIX. Only 32-bit tools are supported on 64-bit machines |
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| Itanium 64-bit | HP-UX 11iv2 HP-UX 11iv3 Update 5 |
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| RSA Authentication Agent for PAM | 6.0 | Standard Tools: login, rlogin, dtlogin,
telnet, rsh, su, ftp Open SSH Tools: sftp, ssh, scp OpenSSH 4.3p2 |
Intel® Xeon AMD Opteron | Red Hat™ Enterprise Linux® AS/ES/WS 4.0 on 64-bit |
| PA-RISC 2.x | HP-UX 11.00, 11i | |||
| Intel® | Sun® Solaris™ 10 x86 on 32-bit | |||
| Standard Tools: login, rlogin, dtlogin,
telnet, rsh, su, ftp Open SSH Tools: sftp, ssh, scp Open SSH 4.5p1 |
Intel® Xeon AMD Opteron | Sun® Solaris™ 10 x86 on 64-bit | ||
| UltraSPARC | Sun® Solaris™ 10 on 64-bit | |||
| Itanium® | HP-UX 11iv2 | |||
| RISC/6000® PowerPC® | IBM® AIX® 5L v5.3 with TL5 (SP6) on 64-bit | |||
| Intel® Xeon AMD Opteron |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 (SP3) and 10 on 64-bit | |||
| Standard Tools: login, rlogin, dtlogin, telnet, rsh, su, ftp Open SSH Tools: sftp, ssh, scp Open SSH 5.0p1 |
Intel® | Red HatTM Enterprise Linux® AS/ES/WS 4.6 on 32-bit Red HatTM Enterprise Linux® 5.1 (Enterprise Server, Advanced Platform and Desktop) on 32-bit |
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| Intel® Xeon AMD Opteron | Red HatTM Enterprise Linux® 5.1 (Enterprise Server, Advanced Platform and Desktop) on 64-bit |
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| RSA Authentication Agent for PAM | 5.3.4 | Standard Tools: login, rlogin,
dtlogin, telnet, rsh, su, ftp Open SSH Tools: sftp, ssh, scp OpenSSH 4.1p1 for all platforms except Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS/ES 4.0 OpenSSH 4.3p1 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS/ES 4.0 RSA Authentication Agent 5.3.4 for PAM is available only for 32-bit platforms. |
UltraSPARC | Sun® Solaris® 8, 9, and 10 |
| Intel® | Red Hat™ Enterprise Linux® AS/ES 3.0 & 4.0, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 | |||
| RISC/6000® PowerPC® | IBM® AIX® 5L v5.3 with ML2, ML3, TL4 | |||
| PA-RISC 2.x | HP-UX 11i | |||
| RSA Authentication Agent for NMAS | 2.1 | Novell eDirectory | Intel® | Windows Server 2000 (SP4) Novell NetWare Server 6.5 (SP2) |
