Advice/resources for setting up TACACS server

Eddy Martinez eddy at fasteddy.org
Fri Nov 7 22:43:53 UTC 2008


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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