[109169] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Advice/resources for setting up TACACS server
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leslie)
Fri Nov 7 17:57:06 2008
From: Leslie <leslie@craigslist.org>
To: Eddy Martinez <eddy@fasteddy.org>
In-Reply-To: <2FF1C77F-93CC-4196-AF74-EEC425189354@fasteddy.org>
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 14:56:44 -0800
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Do you have any suggestions for a free tacacs server which will run on
linux ? I have so far been unable to find any and the tacacs+ source
code hasn't been updated since around 2000
Leslie
On Nov 7, 2008, at 2:43 PM, Eddy Martinez wrote:
> I second the TACACS+
>
> Thats what you want. Same effort for the most part, to implement.
>
> Eddy
>
> On Nov 7, 2008, at 2:39 PM, Steven King wrote:
>
>> I disagree with the RADIUS suggestion. TACACS+ is a much more secure
>> protocol. It encrypts the packet contents and has a more secure
>> handshake procedure.
>>
>> Leslie wrote:
>>> The best answer actually does seem to be to use freeradius instead
>>> of
>>> tacacs, so I will probably go with that (though if anyone has any
>>> good
>>> tips on freeradius, please, let me know)
>>>
>>> Leslie
>>>
>>> On Nov 7, 2008, at 1:30 PM, Leslie wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi --
>>>>
>>>> We are currently trying to set up a TACACS server for
>>>> authentication
>>>> to our network gear and have it run on suse linux hosts. Does
>>>> anyone
>>>> have any advice/good webpages or guides regarding this?
>>>>
>>>> Thank you very much in advance!
>>>>
>>>> Leslie
>>>
>>>
>>
>> --
>> Steve King
>>
>> Network Engineer - Liquid Web, Inc.
>> Cisco Certified Network Associate
>> CompTIA Linux+ Certified Professional
>> CompTIA A+ Certified Professional
>>
>>
>
