Updated TACACSGUI

Updated TACACSGUI
For replacing instances that running on EOL Ubuntu 18.04 and nearly EOL Ubuntu 20.04.
There is no update on the original repo since 2020.
I really hope this will help you as well.

DONATION

This work made me consume copious amount of coffee. If you want to help me then get me some more.

DISCLAIMER

• I am NOT a web developer.
• Ubuntu 18.04 is EOL and 20.04 is not far away. I needed this to work on a newer version so I tried my best.
• SUPPORT: Pretty much none, zip, nada, etc. No support is available private or otherwise.
• If you create an github issue, I MAY look at this and attempt to fix it whenever I have free time.
• I will not accept any pull request that not actually for fixing broken functions.

Tested on

OS	PHP	Python	MySQL	tac_plus
Ubuntu Server 22.04 LTS STANDARD	PHP8.3.11	Python3.10.12	MySQL 8.0.39	tac_plus latest dl 2024-09
Ubuntu Server 24.04 LTS STANDARD	PHP8.3.6	Python3.12.3	MySQL 8.0.39	tac_plus latest dl 2024-09

❗⚠️❗ NOT TESTED but will probably work on Debian 10 and 12 (very similar software repos)

What does work (for me)

tac_plus

PCRE2/CRYPTO/CURL/SSL

WEB GUI - tac_plus:

• ✅ TACACS Global settings: OK
• ✅ TACACS Users: Create/Edit
• ✅ TACACS User Groups: Create/Edit
• ✅ TACACS Devices: Create/Edit
• ✅ TACACS Device Groups: Create/Edit
• ✅ TACACS Services: Create/Edit
• ✅ TACACS ACL: Create/Edit
• ✅ TACACS Objects: Addresses
• ✅ TACACS Objects: Command Sets

WEB GUI - Admin:

• ✅ TACACS GUI Users: Create/Edit
• ✅ DB Backup: Create/Delete/Download
• ✅ MAVIS: Local DB works, OTP works
• ✅ Settings: Time (with NTPSEC or NTP)
• ✅ Network: View (I RECOMMEND YOU SET NETWORK VIA UBUNTU NETPLAN DIRECTLY)
• ✅ Logging: seems ok
• ✅ Update: DISABLE

WEG GUI - Configuration Manager:

✅ Work OK but not sure if anyone uses it. Not too sure you should use it as well

❗⚠️❗ THE REST WERE NOT TESTED!

Added function

Added parser filter to keep the logs clean. The filters below happen BEFORE logs ingestion.
Various system has default auto system cmd that generate a lot of logs when a user is logged in.
These filters give you ability to filter them out.

• You can edit the filters at

# Accounting filter
/opt/tgui_data/parser/acc-filter.txt
# Authorisation filter
/opt/tgui_data/parser/autho-filter.txt
# Authentication filter
/opt/tgui_data/parser/authe-filter.txt

• Support format: simple regular expression. Example below

# Comment line starting with # is ok

# ^ Empty line like above will be ignored
# Simple regex to filter out automation host
robotuser.*192.168.1.10
robotuser.*control-node.lan
_ses_open$
bin.[a-z]{2,5}.*exit=.$
# DO NOT USE SELECTOR OR FORMAT
# >> THIS WILL NOT WORK: bin.[a-z]{2,5}\sexit=(0|1)$
# >> THIS WILL NOT WORK: bin.[a-z]{2,5}\sexit=\(0\|1\)$

Installation

See my installer repo tacacsgui-installation
I wrote a new one from scratch. Tested on both Ubuntu 22.04 and 24.04.

Code status

• Released as 1.0.0
• See CHANGELOGS

License

❗ Matching the original project.

Author

💻 @me

Original Author

• tac_plus: tacacs daemon by Marc Huber:
  https://projects.pro-bono-publico.de/event-driven-servers/doc/tac_plus.html
• TACACSGUI: Aleksey Mochalin
  https://tacacsgui.com/
  Original TACACS GUI Repo:
  https://github.com/tacacsgui/tacacsgui