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Date:      Fri, 11 Apr 1997 18:28:01 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Vincent Poy <vince@mail.MCESTATE.COM>
To:        Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
Cc:        freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Some advice needed. 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.970411182624.17814D-100000@mail.MCESTATE.COM>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.93.970411152214.18192Q-100000@sidhe.memra.com>

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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.


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