[tac_plus] Re: Tac+ and Cisco WCS

Guy Morrell guy.morrell at oucs.ox.ac.uk
Mon Nov 3 17:01:14 UTC 2008


 > > Dear all,
 > >
 > > we are using your Tacacs+ server for AAA on our Cisco equipment  
which ever
 > > worked fine.
 > > Now we spent some money on Cisco's new "Wirless Lan Controller"  
and also a
 > > "Wirless Controll System" Server.
 > >
 > > These kits support AAA and Tacacs in their most recent version  
but I
 > > haven't got really a clue how to pair them off (neither WLC nor  
WCS +
 > > tacacs).
 > >
 > > I found some good manuals on the Cisco web
 > > (http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk722/tk809/technologies_tech_note09186a0080851f7c.shtml 
),
 > > but they just state out how to use theyr ACS and that's a bit  
pricey if
 > > you don't already have that server.
 > >
 > > Mainly I failed in finding out how to use these rolebased auth  
methods in
 > > your tac Server.
 >
 > There should not be anything fancy about this.  The device probably  
expects an
 > AV-pair, such as something = role:ALL.  You just have to find out  
what the
 > something is and I don't see it in that document.
 >
 > However, this may require service = ciscowlc, under which this av  
pair would
 > be.  such as:
 >
 > user = foo {
 > service = ciscwlc {
 >         something = role:ALL
 >  }
 > }

Hello there,

Apologies for any formatting issues - I wasn't on the list at the time  
so I've fudged a reply to this. I had the same problem and got it  
working the other day. You want something like this:

user = foo {
service = ciscowlc {
         role1 = ALL
     }
}

Hope this helps.

Guy



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