[lug] TACACS+ and RH 8.0

[Hugh Brown]

On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 13:18, Mark Egan wrote:
> I am using Cisco's TACACS+ on Red Hat 8.0 and I can authenticate fine
> against a local password file.  If I point TACACS+ to the /etc/shadow
> file I get "Password has expired" - even with no expry or one years in
> the future.  Id the the RH 8.0 /etc/shadow file format different
> enought so that TACACS+ isn't finding the expry info where it expects it?
> 

Just grabbing at straws here,

does TACACS+ support md5?  
does it want a file formatted like /etc/passwd (the formats of
/etc/passwd and /etc/shadow are rather different)?

was it working on a previous version of redhat but doesn't work on 8.0?

Hugh