clogin with CatOS + autoenable

john heasley heas at shrubbery.net
Fri Jan 2 16:27:57 UTC 2004


Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 02:29:26PM +0200, Yuval Ben-Ari:
> Hi,
> 
> Been using rancid with CatOS that required login password and then
> manually enable with enable password, it was working fine.
> We changed the CatOS switch (5500) to use aaa server which enters user
> directly to enable mode and the clogin seems to be unable to deal with
> that:
> 
> $clogin cat55
> spawn telnet cat55
> 
> Cisco Systems Console
> 
> Username: rancid
> 
> Password:
> cat55-u-b> (enable)
> Error: TIMEOUT reached
> $
> 
> 
> the login succeeds but seems the clogin will not recognize the enable
> prompt and expecting the # sign.
> 
> the .cloginrc config is:
> 
> add user	cat55  	rancid
> add password   	cat55   	{rancidpassword}
> add autoenable 	cat55   	1
> 
> before I go hacking the clogin, is this really not supported or am I
> missing something ?

this (clogin + autoenable + catos) does not work properly, ATM.  I have
a patch for the next release, but nothing to test it on.  please contact
me directly if you're willing to debug with me or provide access to one
remotely.



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