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Terminal Access Controller Access Control System

Terminal Access Controller Access Control System definition - hacker
A simple remote authentication protocol that preceded the more widely used Radius protocol. It is used to communicate with a central network entity that provides authentication services. TACACS allows a remote access server to communicate with an authentication server to determine whether the user has access to the network..

See Also: Radius.

Webster's New World Hacker Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Bernadette Schell and Clemens Martin.
Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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