(RADIATOR) TACAS support

Mike McCauley mikem at open.com.au
Wed Aug 20 18:20:15 CDT 2003


Hello Troy,


On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 12:25 am, Troy Holder wrote:
> Do I understand the new TACAS support correctly? If you have Radiator
> accepting TACAS requests, it basically converts the TACAS request into a
> RADIUS request. Then RADIATOR handles the RADIUS request and converts
> the RADIUS response into a TACAS response.

Correct.

>
> I use a lot of handlers in my config to deal with different pieces of
> equipment needing different return values or different auth schemes.
> What kind of info is passed in the RADIUS request that is converted from
> a TACAS request?

There is not much available from Tacacs+ at authentication time, but you do 
get:

User-Name
User-Password
Calling-Station-Id (sent as rem_addr by TACACS+)
NAS-Port-Id (sent as port by TACACS+)
Service-Type (sent as service by TACACS+)

Cheers.

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