From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Apr 11 18:28:18 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA07306 for isp-outgoing; Fri, 11 Apr 1997 18:28:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.MCESTATE.COM (mail.MCESTATE.COM [207.211.200.50]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA07298 for ; Fri, 11 Apr 1997 18:28:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (vince@localhost) by mail.MCESTATE.COM (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA17848; Fri, 11 Apr 1997 18:28:02 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 18:28:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Vincent Poy To: Michael Dillon cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Some advice needed. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, Michael Dillon wrote: > On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > > Speaking about authentication, does FreeBSD support TACACS? > > > > Sure. It's a trivial compile (or you can use the BSDI version). > > If he was asking about running a TACACS server like xtacacsd then you > would be right. But if he was asking about whether FreeBSD could be a > TACACS client it is probably not so simple and is, IMHO, a much more > interesting question. Actually, what I was trying to ask was as a client and as a server since the terminal server would act as a client but the machine where the user accounts on would be the server. > Right now, login uses /etc/pwd.db for authentication. Some people have > hacked login to act as a RADIUS client too I believe. But what about > TACACS? And what about PAM? Hmm, what is PAM used for since TACACS is what Cisco uses I think. Cheers, Vince - vince@MCESTATE.COM - vince@GAIANET.NET ________ __ ____ Unix Networking Operations - FreeBSD-Real Unix for Free / / / / | / |[__ ] GaiaNet Corporation - M & C Estate / / / / | / | __] ] Beverly Hills, California USA 90210 / / / / / |/ / | __] ] HongKong Stars/Gravis UltraSound Mailing Lists Admin /_/_/_/_/|___/|_|[____]