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Re: What are you guys doing for tacacs+ in 2026?


From: "Elmar K. Bins via NANOG" <nanog () lists nanog org>
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2026 09:08:15 +0100

Yeah, well, turns out I'm too stupid to check recipients before sending.
Please let's not start an OS war...

Elmar.

nanog () lists nanog org (Elmar K. Bins via NANOG) wrote:

Hi Drew, I'll answer in private to not reincinerate the OS wars.
We're running tac_plus, and have been since... forever.
We have not painted ourselves into a corner by using Linux, though.
FreeBSD has a still-maintained package which works well; it needs a restart
every two months or so, but is happy otherwise.

I know this won't help you much, except maybe to think a bit outside the Linux box.

Cheers,
    Elmar.

nanog () lists nanog org (Drew Weaver via NANOG) wrote:

Howdy.

I imagine that this is an issue that has come up before but I am having an issue finding how anyone else handled 
it. (Unless everyone is still running tac_plus on RHEL7)

I'm trying to migrate some tac plus instances to a new Linux distro that apparently doesn't support tcp_wrappers 
and I'm having trouble both compiling it and making an RPM for it.

I've tried both the original https://www.shrubbery.net/tac_plus/ and the now sadly abandoned Facebook version 
https://github.com/facebook/tac_plus

If there is another tacacs+ solution everyone has moved to that I am unaware of please enlighten me.

Thank you,
-Drew
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