Quick Reference Guide

136 | Providing User Access Security
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TACACS would generally not be the last method specified, in order to avoid a situation where the final
authentication option depends on a server that might be offline. Generally, you would specify
local as the
final method. For example, in the command string “
authentication login listone tacacs
local”, “listone” is the name given to the method list, followed by the selected sequence of authentication
methods—“tacacs” and then “local”. For details on setting local passwords, see Creating a User and
Password on page 36.
TACACS+ includes a group of configurable settings that you can also leave in their default settings. You
can configure some global settings (for all TACACS+ servers), or you can configure settings at the
individual server level. See the Security chapter in the
FTOS Command Line Interface Reference for details on
global settings. See the following section, Configuring TACACS+ Server Connection Options on
page 137, for more on configuring one host.
To specify the IP address of the TACACS host, use the
tacacs-server host command in the Global Config
mode, as shown here. In this example, the user then changes the local timeout to 5 seconds:
Figure 9-97. Setting the IP Address of a TACACS+ Server
Figure 9-98. Display Settings for TACACS+ Server Connections
Figure 9-99 shows the creation of three user authentication method lists, each one with a different priority
sequence. The list called “one” sets TACACS+ as the second authentication method; list “two” defaults to
local authentication; list “three” sets TACACS+ as the first method.
Figure 9-99. Setting the Authentication Method with the authentication login Command
4
show tacacs Privileged
Exec
Verify the configuration and status of TACACS
servers (See Figure 9-98).
5
show authentication Privileged
Exec
Display the ordered authentication methods for all
authentication login lists.
Step Command Syntax
Command
Mode Purpose
Force10#config
Force10 (Config)#tacacs-server host 1.1.1.1
Force10 (Tacacs)#timeout 5
Force10 (Tacacs)#exit
Force10 (Config)#
Force10 #show tacacs
Global Timeout: 5
IP address Port Timeout Priority
--------------- ----- ------- --------
10.10.10.226 49 Global 0
10.16.1.58 49 Global 0
Force10_S50 (Config)#authentication login one local tacacs
Force10_S50 (Config)#authentication login two
Force10_S50 (Config)#authentication login three tacacs reject