Monday, August 20, 2007

Tacacs+ Web Interface

In the past few years since I began writing perl I have collected a little arsenal of half-baked programs that have never really been exposed to the world, probably because I was too lazy to clean them up. I decided that I would use this week to expose some of the programs that I have written over the years. For the most part I worked on these until they worked rather than until they were done correctly, but they may serve as a starting point for someone else looking to do the same thing.

The first program on the list (download here) is a little web interface to the open source tacacs+ AAA server from shrubbery.net. The Cisco SecureACS server can be fine, but if you need regular expression support in ACLs or a way of automating entries it may not be the tool for you. That said, editing a flat config file can be problematic for some folks. This was my quick solution.

This is just a series of CGI scripts that allows the user to admin the tacacs+ server without learning vi. It includes the ability to add users, delete users, administrative password resets, show configuration, and test authentication. When a users password is near expiration they can log in and change it. Passwords are checked against the aspell dictionary to make sure that they're not a simple word (yeah, there is room for much more improvement here).

There are also a couple little bonus scripts, one useful and one for fun. The tac2rad.pl script is for tying the shrubery tacacs+ user database in with a freeradius server with the MySQL back-end. It copies the users and passwords over to MySQL from tacacs+. The second, crack.pl, was just for my own learning experience. It scours the config file for des encrypted passwords and cracks them if they're simple dictionary words... which I somehow thought would be difficult... it is not.

I don't maintain these or fix them, but if they're useful to you drop me a comment and let me know.

16 comments:

  1. hello,

    I am interested to your program, your link seem down, could you provide me a new one ?

    Thanks.

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  2. Fun, links like this must have been broken for a couple years. Works now.

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    1. It seems the html files are missing ?
      Could you tell me how to use your script ?

      Thanks

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  3. Sorry, these are unmaintained / unsupported. It may useful for you to start a project, but is not really usable as an off-the-shelf solution.

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  4. hi,

    Can you tell me please how to install your web interface for tacacs.

    Thanks.

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