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<div><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Dear heasley,</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Really appreciate your reply</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">i set the rancid conf file variables to NO and tested on cisco.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">it worked great</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Once again thank you so much for the wise reply and GOD Bless</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Regards</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Simon<br></div><div><br></div>
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On Monday, January 31, 2022, 09:02:25 PM GMT+3, heasley <heas@shrubbery.net> wrote:
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<div>Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 08:10:25AM +0000, simon ben:<div class="ydp3c85ae5eyqt5543950737" id="ydp3c85ae5eyqtfd88703"><br clear="none">> so i realized that after i had restored the backup i had to create user and assigned a password for him<br clear="none">> So just wanted to know if this the right practice i need to go about or do i need to follow another way</div><br clear="none"><br clear="none">There are 2 ways to handle passwords, and two caveats.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">1) replace "<removed>" configuration with proper values before loading or<br clear="none">manually configure them after loading,<br clear="none">2) set rancid.conf variables FILTER_PWDS and NOCOMMSTR to "NO".<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Caveat 1) some devices re-produce the password crypt shown in the config<br clear="none">each time, which may always be filtered by rancid or affected by rancid.conf<br clear="none">variable FILTER_OSC, because it becomes annoying to have diffs each time<br clear="none">rancid runs as a result.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Caveat 2) some devices have trouble loading exported configs, such as one<br clear="none">of the HP models. Cisco, juniper, nokia are known to work, but I can not<br clear="none">test every one. Please test your DR processes.<div class="ydp3c85ae5eyqt5543950737" id="ydp3c85ae5eyqtfd31974"><br clear="none"></div></div>
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