Hello, and a question.

David W Bell david at chaoscrypt.com
Mon Jan 14 15:34:53 CET 2008


>>
>>
>> Can freeRADIUS provide everything that TACACS+ can so that I need 
>> only install/configure freeRADIUS.
> This really depends on the network kit and the Vendor that produced 
> it. Cisco claim that many of the features of TACACS+ can be replicated 
> using Cisco VSA strings. The wiki has bits and pieces for Cisco 
> http://wiki.freeradius.org/Cisco#Cisco_VSAs.
>
> HP  Have limited support for RADIUS; You can be an operator or manager 
> .... But you can't really have fine grained control over what commands 
> those users can issue.
>
> Bottom line is TACACS+ generally has better support in terms of fine 
> grained access control, but TACACS+ server implementations do not have 
> the flexibility and range of features FreeRADIUS does.
>>

Much of the kit we are using IS Cisco.

So I am guessing I would be best to allow RADIUS & TAC+ to interface 
with LDAP.

Thanks for that :)

David



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