This white paper presents planning, design, and implementation practices for deploying Cisco Secure Access Control Server (ACS) for Windows NT/2000 servers in support of Cisco Catalyst Switch networks. It discusses network topology regarding authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA), user database choices, password protocol choices, access requirements, and capabilities of Cisco Secure ACS.
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