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

[Chris via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>]

On 2026-02-11 00:05, 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 was going to suggest the same. We've been  on FBSD for *decades* and have 
zero
problems. As an added bonus, it'll run most linux apps either directly, or a
complete (linux) system in a VM or jail.

HTH

--Chris
> 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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