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Re: Error Compiling TACACS+ on RH5.1 - HELP!

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Frampton)
Fri Oct 30 14:38:41 1998

Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 14:28:57 -0500 (EST)
From: Steve Frampton <frampton@mail.flarc.edu.on.ca>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
cc: Graham Hemmings <gh-work@netcomuk.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <9810221229.AC26992@mars.cableol.net>
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On Thu, 22 Oct 1998, Graham Hemmings wrote:

> I have been trying to compile TACACS+ 2.1 on a RedHat 5.1 machine with no
> luck.
> 
> /usr/src/tac_plus.2.1/generate_passwd.c:71: undefined reference to `crypt'
> make: *** [generate_passwd] Error 1

Sounds like you are using shadow passwords on Red Hat which of course uses
the PAM libraries not the shadow libraries.

> If anyone can throw some light on this problem or supply me with a TACACS+
> RPM (dreamer) then I would be most grateful.

You need a TACACS+ package that supports PAM.  There doesn't seem to be
one.

> BTW: Please don't suggest I use RADIUS as I really need TACACS+

Yeah, me too.  :-(  I guess we're screwed though, unless Vikas updates his
package (unlikely ... when I sent him e-mail he said something to the
effect of "sigh...yet *another* security protocol") or somebody else does.

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