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AOS-S Downloadable User Roles breaks Radius VSA

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  • 1.  AOS-S Downloadable User Roles breaks Radius VSA

    Posted Feb 02, 2026 11:01 AM

    When enabling the following configuration, the following message is received:

    switch# aaa authorization user-role enable download
    Some legacy secure client access functionality is not supported when user roles
     are enabled.

    Does anyone know precisely what legacy secure client access functionality is not supported? When I enable DUR, I can no longer send Radius VSA attributes for VLAN assignment from Clearpass, I can only send a DUR. Is this expected behavior? Is there a way to continue having some devices receive radius VSA on a switch while others receive a DUR?



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  • 2.  RE: AOS-S Downloadable User Roles breaks Radius VSA

    Posted 3 days ago

    The list you want isn't in the PDF, it's in the online Access Security Guide under User roles, Overview, Restrictions. That's where the legacy secure client access piece is actually spelled out: no BYOD redirect, no MAC auth failure redirect, no enhanced web auth, web auth can't share a port with other methods, and both auth-vid and unauth-vid are out.

    On the VSA side, your VLAN attributes aren't being ignored exactly. User roles are a global enable and the role gets applied to every user on ports where authentication is configured. If the Access-Accept comes back with VLAN attributes but no user role VSA, the switch counts that as no role returned and drops the client into the initial role, which is denyall unless you changed it. From the outside that looks identical to the VLAN being ignored.

    Put the VLAN inside the role with vlan-id or vlan-name and it works the way you want. As for mixing, it's all or nothing per switch since there's no per-port enable, though local roles and downloadable roles can happily coexist per client.



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    Dustin Burns

    @Worldcom Exchange, Inc.


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