Tacacs+

Hi Guys, I am trying to implement a free TACACS, is there only one freeware from Cisco TACACS+ or are there others?

Thanks!

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QHalo

TACACS+ being Cisco proprietary probably doesn't have any other offerings than from them.

Grigsby

The trail ACS server from Cisco does last 60 days, just FYI. Not quite forever, but better than 30 days I guess.

Met44

The TACACS+ page on wikipedia lists a few other implementations, though some are modified versions of Cisco's release.

Forsaken_GA

funny how this post would show up. I just finished migrating my tacacs+ from debian to centos about an hour ago.

If you're going to be doing it on anything redhat based,

ftp://ftp.muug.mb.ca/mirror/redhat/contrib/libc6/i386/tac_plus-4.0.3-2.i386.rpm

That RPM works fine, I just finished installing and configuring it.

If you're using something debian based, the last time I set it up, I could not find any good debian based packages (indeed, tac_plus used to be a debian package in etch (v4), but it was removed in lenny (v5), apparently the maintainer orphaned it).

I ended up having to compile my debian based version from source, and that was an... interesting experience.

chmorin

Well TACACS is not a free solution for centralizing authenticaion on a network. You're next best bet for a free solution is to do what I did which was install a freeRADIUS server on a debian based platform, I used Ubuntu Server with no GUI.

FreeRADIUS: The world's most popular RADIUS Server

It is pretty well documented when their website is not down... which unfortunatly happens often.

I just finished configuring about 20 of our cisco devices to authenticate via this server, and everything is working wonderfully. Before I came here we had a different password per switch, that got old fast. We don't have loads of cash, so I implemented this. Works great, it can even monitor user login times. And much more if set up to do so.

peanutnoggin

You can also run IAS from a windows server and use AD to authenticate your users. I setup this up awhile back after a member from TE posted some configs... I'll see if I can track it down! It worked beautifully. HTH.

-Peanut

Here's the link I was referring to. HTH.

Forsaken_GA

chmorin wrote: »

Well TACACS is not a free solution for centralizing authenticaion on a network. You're next best bet for a free solution is to do what I did which was install a freeRADIUS server on a debian based platform, I used Ubuntu Server with no GUI.

Say what? You most certainly can do TACACS without paying a penny.