TACACS+ for Console ASA

[Theofilos Tzachristas]

Hello all,

I am trying to use TACACS for authentication / authorization. My setup is shown below.

On the Router, everything works really well.

For the ASA, I can ssh, telnet and http with no issues and I am going straight to privilege level 15 (example below is ssh)

ciscoasa# show curpriv 
Username : theo 
Current privilege level : 15
Current Mode/ s : P_PRIV 

but when I use the console, after logging I am in user-mode

ciscoasa> show curpriv 
Username : theo 
Current privilege level : 1
Current Mode/ s : P_UNPR

I can enter the enable password, but after that I cannot access anything, not even the show commands.

ciscoasa> enable 15
Password : *******
ciscoasa# conf t
Command authorization failed

Cisco IOS

R1#show running-config | include aaa
aaa new-model
aaa authentication login REMOTE-LOGIN group tacacs+ local
aaa authorization exec REMOTE-AUTHOR group tacacs+ local
aaa authorization commands 15 REMOTE-EXEC-AUTHOR group tacacs+ local

R1#show run | include tacacs-server
tacacs-server host 10.11.3.21 key Cisco123
tacacs-server key Cisco123

R1#show run | section vty
line vty 0 4
 authorization commands 15 REMOTE-EXEC-AUTHOR
 authorization exec REMOTE-AUTHOR
 login authentication REMOTE-LOGIN
line vty 5 935
 authorization commands 15 REMOTE-EXEC-AUTHOR
 authorization exec REMOTE-AUTHOR
 login authentication REMOTE-LOGIN

Cisco ASA

ciscoasa# show running-config aaa 
aaa  authentication telnet console TACACS-Servers LOCAL 
aaa authentication http console TACACS-Servers LOCAL 
aaa authentication serial console TACACS-Servers LOCAL 
aaa authentication ssh console TACACS-Servers LOCAL 
aaa authorization command TACACS-Servers LOCAL 
aaa authorization exec authentication-server auto-enable 
aaa authentication login-history 

ciscoasa# show run aaa-server 
aaa-server TACACS-Servers protocol tacacs+ 
aaa-server TACACS-Servers (Inside) host 10.11.3.21 
  key *****

Linux  /etc/tac_plus.conf

group = network-admin {
         default service = permit
        login = PAM
        service = exec {
        priv-lvl = 15
        }

user = theo {
        login = PAM
        member = network-admin

[Francesco Molino · Accepted solution]

Hi

This is because you need to configure a user called enable_15 on your tacacs server.

If you take a look on your logs, you should see an authorization failed coming from that user enable_15

Thanks

[Theofilos Tzachristas]

Perfect! That worked.

user = enable_15 {
        default service = permit
        service = exec {
        priv-lvl = 15
        }
}

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[Francesco Molino]

Glad that your issue is solved.