[tac_plus] tacacs account log not capturing all authentication attempts

Tue Jul 5 13:37:49 UTC 2016

is there other option than sending to syslog?

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Kevin Cruse
US Networks
Instinet LLC
309 West 49th Street
New York, NY 10019 US
kevin.cruse at instinet.com
212-310-4734

From:	heasley <heas at shrubbery.net>
To:	Kevin.Cruse at Instinet.com,
Cc:	tac_plus at shrubbery.net
Date:	07/01/2016 10:30 AM
Subject:	Re: [tac_plus] tacacs account log not capturing all
            authentication attempts

Fri, Jul 01, 2016 at 09:16:40AM -0400, Kevin.Cruse at Instinet.com:
> I have noticed that some authentication attempts do not get logged in
> tacacs_account log.  For example, we have some non cisco terminal
servers,
> corvils and ciscoworks devices that are configured to authenticate with
> tacacs. Authentication is working and I can verify the users are hitting
> tacacs as a packet capture proves it. However, despite users getting
> authenticated when I check the account log for their ID's, source IP,
etc.
> I see nothing. This seems to be either a bug or misconfiguration. Has
> anyone encountered this?
>
>
> accounting file = /var/log/tacacs/tacacs_accounting.log

this is accounting records only and those are produced by the devices
and sent to tacacs.  auth succes/failure will go to syslog.

logging = daemon

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