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<FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>We are in the process of changing to a new TACACS server, going from Cisco ACS 4.2 to Ciasco ACS 5.3. Because of the differences between the platforms, we are treating this as a new installation, and did not try to migrate any of the data between the servers.<BR>
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I didn’t realize that the TACACS server supplies the text for the enable mode username and password prompt to the ProCurve switches. With ACS 4.2, either we didn’t have this set, or it was set to ‘Username’ and ‘Password’. With ACS 5.3, the defaults are ‘username’ and ‘password’. A subtle difference, but one that caused RANCID to stop collections on our ProCurves. This is because the default that hlogin is looking for is {"(Username|login|user name):"}<BR>
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I know that I can explicitly set a user prompt in .cloginrc to handle this change, but this seams like one of those things that will come back to bite me in five years, and no one will remember the details. I would prefer to stick with defaults as much as possible.<BR>
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Therefore, I am requesting a change to the default in hlogin to {"(\[Uu]sername|login|user name):"}. The default for the password prompt already supports upper or lower case P.<BR>
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I am posting this to the discussion list, in case this may be of benefit to others.<BR>
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Thanks, Skye.<BR>
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