Managing ScreenOS firewalls with TACACS+

This snippet is tested against “recent” Shrubbery tac_plus daemons as of the date of the post.  ScreenOS 6.0+ users may have noticed that you can now configure TACACS+ servers to authenticate admin users. I’ll skip over the details, except to say that as of 6.1.0r3, failover isn’t working to either of the backup servers that [...]

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Managing Cisco ACE (Application Control Engine) modules with TACACS+

This snippet is tested against “recent” Shrubbery tac_plus daemons as of the date of the post.Searching for ACE and TACACS or similar gets confusing because of the RSA ACE server.  Good job Cisco Cisco Application Control Engine modules are really separate devices from the “mother” switch, only suckling power and connectivity.  These devices need [...]

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