tac_plus 4.0 and autoconf by Zach Beane

This page is for my mini-project to use autoconf to manage compilation and features in cisco's TACACS+ server, tac_plus. I'm basing all these changes off version 4.0.2 alpha from cisco's FTP site. To avoid confusion, I've appended xach_autoconf to the version. I thought about making a patch, but it was pretty big (due to the new files added by autoconf).

All changes that I make will be available under the license that cisco provides for tac_plus, which is quite relaxed. And of course, there is NO WARRANTY for this software.

Download Now from my files section.

What's New

February 22, 1999 - version 0.12

• Added README
• Fixed a few compilation problems, based on feedback from some Solaris people
• Added --enable-maxsess flag
• Changed the name to "xac_plus", just to make it easier to type

version 0.6

• Converted to use autoconf
• Uses autoconf to enable SKEY and Mysql features. Mysql features don't actually exist, but configure manages the include and linking options.
• Renamed tac's login function to tac_login, it collided with a system function in Linux.
• Compiles fine on Linux (libc5 and libc6) and FreeBSD, others not tested.

Why?

I wanted to add some Mysql logging and authentication features to tac_plus, and I figured the easiest way to manage it would be via autoconf. These changes aren't implemented yet, but autoconf transition will make it easier to add.

How to Help

If you are building tac_plus+autoconf on a system that isn't correctly handled, I'd really love it if you fix it and send me a patch :-). If you can't do that, ./configure output and config.log files are almost as good. Any "make" output is good too.

Other Resources

• The tac_plus patch page

Zach Beane
December 3, 1998