[c-nsp] Open Source Substitute for Cisco's Secure ACS?

[Scott McGrath]

Not so much - we use ACS for TACACS services and proxy the TACACS via 
RADIUS for some application but Cisco ACS is now an appliance and on the 
close order of 8K + SmartNet so you are looking at 20K $US for a new 
solution.

RADIATOR is open-source but not 'free' it has 200+ authenticators and 
interfaces to billing systems built in and a basic license and support 
for 1 yr is under $2000 US

Nothing wrong with FreeRADIUS it's just you need to 'roll your own' for 
a lot of stuff,  If your time is worth nothing or it's a hobby or 
experimental setup FreeRADIUS may be the better choice. But if you want 
someting with AD, LDAP, Kerberos, Unix, NTLM, SQL  etc built in and 
ready to go  RADIATOR is your tool.

- Scott

Alan Buxey wrote:
> Hi,
>   
>> Radiator RADIUS server.   There are multiple versions of this software and support is available for a reasonable fee  runs on Windows/Solaris/Linux
>>     
>
> with fear of pouring petrol onto a RADIUS flamewar I'd say if
> the original post aint got funding for ACS then free open source is
> pushing the answer to FreeRADIUS. 
>
> alan
>