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Re: keberos authentication with tacacs ?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Russell Fulton)
Sun May 5 22:50:30 1996

To: kerberos@MIT.EDU
Date: 6 May 1996 02:35:23 GMT
From: russell@ccu1.auckland.ac.nz (Russell Fulton)

hartmans@MIT.EDU (Sam Hartman) writes:

>>>>>> "Yves" == Yves Touchette <yvest@accent.net> writes:

>    Yves> Anybody could help me out setting a tacacs server that
>    Yves> authenticate via keberos ?

>	You can't really do this.  The TACACS protocol only supports
>cleartext password authentication, so it cannot be authenticated with
>Kerberos.

You need to use tacacs+. The Publicly distributed server has a well
defined API for using other Authentication methods. 

Cheers, Russell.

--
Russell Fulton, Computer Center, University of Auckland, New Zealand.
<r.fulton@auckland.ac.nz>

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