[tac_plus] Tac Plus Auth Error with IOS 16

[Andrew Villano]

I'm using file authentication, it should be reading directly from
/etc/passwd . The password does not contain quotes.

On Nov 21, 2017 5:49 PM, "heasley" <heas at shrubbery.net> wrote:

> Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 05:28:51PM -0500, Andrew Villano:
> > Certain special characters (I've noticed [ @; ] ) are not tolerated as a
> > user password in tac_plus.conf . When I change the system password for
> > rancid [user] (which tac_plus.conf reads from) to something without
> special
> > characters (eg. [A-z0-9] ), i'm able to login without a problem. It can't
> > be rancid [application] either because I get consistent experiences with
> > interactive ssh login.
>
> have you quoted those?  "foo at bar:"
>
> > On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 5:00 PM, heasley <heas at shrubbery.net> wrote:
> >
> > > Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 03:25:06PM -0500, Andrew Villano:
> > > > Found the problem. Special characters are not tolerated in passwords.
> > >
> > > in do_auth?  not sure what you mean by special characters; be more
> > > specific.
> > >
>
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