This is the first post in a planned multi-post series on deploying a TACACS+ server using open-source components. I hope to create a complete guide for such a solution, while also delving reasonably deep into TACACS+ itself, LDAP set-up and various vendor-specific configuration needed for this to work. In this post, I will describe my solution and what I was aiming to achieve. I will also give a brief overview of TACACS+ protocol that will hopefully make future posts easier to follow. I deployed this on Rocky Linux 9 (a bug-for-bug clone of Red Hat 9), because that’s what I had to work with, but any modern Linux distro should…