[nsp] TACACS+ server of choice?

[john heasley]

Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 09:14:27PM -0500, Richard A Steenbergen:
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 06:28:25PM -0500, Streiner, Justin wrote:
> > For those of you who use TACACS+ authentication on your network devices,
> > which TACACS+ server package are you using?  I'm looking to replace an
> > existing TACACS+ server and would rather build it from the ground-up if I
> > can on a unix platform.  Aside from Cisco's which is several years old,
> > and a handful of things on sourceforge, I don't see much out there.
> 
> I believe the closest thing to a maintained tac+ server in general use by
> the networking community (modified version of Cisco's) is available at:
> 
> http://www.shrubbery.net/tac_plus/
> 
> If there is a more modern one I'd sure like to hear about it. Last I
> looked everything on sourceforge seemed to be tacacs classic or xtacacs,
> which are not the same protocol as tacacs+.

there are a few (several?) others around, such as tacppd.  there is another
derivative of cisco's free daemon which is (among other things) discussed
on the list tacplus-l at disaster.com.