Subject: Re: Alternate password file?

From: Evan Champion <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 1995 15:34:27 -0400 (EDT)

At 02:00 95-10-18 -0700, you wrote:
>I still think a better strategy is to incorporate something like
>the TIS authserv, RADIUS, or TACACS+ to do this.  If you were
>using something like latter two, you could even limit the
>commands based on user by setting up appropriate AV-pairs.

Can anyone give me some background on TIS and TACACS+?

I'm well versed in RADIUS but know almost nothing about what the other two
could do for me.

Evan

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From: "Adamopoulos Th. George" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 1995 10:56:28 +0200 (EET)

> Can anyone give me some background on TIS and TACACS+?

TIS goes for the FWTK (Firewall Toolkit, Trusted Information Systems).  You
will find more info on {ftp,http}://{ftp,www}.tis.com.

TACACS does a similar job for cisco routers as RADIUS does for Livingston (?)
routers.
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 giorgos adamopoulos ([email-masked])