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

[Saku Ytti via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>]

You are making a big ask Elmar, by your absolutely wild rationale,
hope it'll pay out :)

On Wed, 11 Feb 2026 at 10:08, Elmar K. Bins via NANOG
<nanog () lists nanog org> wrote:
> 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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