Re: Advice/resources for setting up TACACS server

* Dominic J. Eidson · * Fri Nov 07 18:03:38 2008

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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