[tac_plus] Adding users to tacacs passwd file

[john heasley]

Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 10:52:07AM -0500, Jeffrey S. Geist:
> Hi,
> 
> It seems that tacacs is not able to get the encrypted password from the
> /etc/shadow file. If the tac_plus.cfg is configured with
> 
>  "default authentication = file /etc/passwd"

it should.  if you send the debug logs, that may tell us why its failing.

> If we copy the encrypted password from /etc/shadow for a particular user and
> then replace "x" in the /etc/passwd file for that same user with the
> encrypted passwd, it works!
> 
> Hope this can shed some light on our issue...
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: 'john heasley' [mailto:heas at shrubbery.net] 
> Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 2:17 PM
> To: Jeffrey S. Geist
> Cc: 'john heasley'; dterry at dollartree.com; Jarrod Ronhovde;
> tac_plus at shrubbery.net; Mark Urbach
> Subject: Re: [tac_plus] Adding users to tacacs passwd file
> 
> Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 12:52:56PM -0500, Jeffrey S. Geist:
> > We created the symbolic link:
> > 
> > lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      11 Aug 18 12:32 tac_plus.pwd -> /etc/passwd
> > 
> > and edited the tac_plus.cfg with "default authentication = file
> > /etc/tac_plus.pwd".
> > 
> > However, this did not correct the issue.
> 
> hrm, not sure why it wouldnt.  look at the syslog and -d option for
> password debugging.
> 
> 
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