Re: Advice/resources for setting up TACACS server

["Dominic J. Eidson" <sauron () the-infinite org>]

It's not free, but I want to praise Radiator
(http://www.open.com.au/radiator/) as a great radius/tacacs+ server.

(I have previously battled both with freeradius and openradius.)


 - d.


On Fri, 7 Nov 2008, Leslie wrote:

> 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
> > > 
> > > 

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