Questions tagged [tacacs]

I'm trying to understand how TACACS+ encryption works. I've read the Cisco's TACACS+ RFC draft but it's too technical and not very easy to understand. My questions are: Does the TACACS+ device (client) authenticate itself to the server before…

In the network administration world, normally we configure the network devices to use an AAA server (Radius or tacacs+). As a backup, in case the AAA server is not reachable, we configure the network device to use its local database (local username…

TACACS is a networking protocol that provides centralized Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA) management https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TACACS The question if is it possible to get the user groups or other attributes. According my…