[rancid] Re: Connecting to a Cisco Service Control Engine

Manuel Noriega mnoriega at amnetcorp.com
Fri Jan 26 18:52:40 UTC 2007


I had a similar situation with Tellabs equipment which don't ask for  
user or password and login immediately. What I used in .cloginrc was:

add userprompt  tellabs* ">"

I guess in your case something similar may work using

add enableprompt  10.0.0.1 ">"



Sincerely,

Manuel Noriega
ISP Engineer

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On Jan 25, 2007, at 4:07 PM, Sherrill, Justin wrote:

> I've got a number of Cisco SCE units (formerly known as P-Cube).  They
> don't prompt for a username, just a password.  Connecting to them with
> clogin will log in, but they hang once the user prompt shows.
>
> The prompt is the normal type that Rancid recognizes -  
> "hostname>".  It
> appears that Rancid emits the password normally, and then waits for
> something other than the user prompt, which leads to the timeout.  I
> don't know what that something is.
>
> Looking at clogin, it appears that it should enter the password and
> happily continue when it sees the '>' in the prompt, unless I'm  
> reading
> it wrong.
>
> Will clogin look for the user prompt if the username hasn't been
> entered?
>
> (Details - .cloginrc):
>
> add password    10.0.0.1  pass1   pass2
> add method      10.0.0.1  {telnet}
>
> (what I see)
>
> $ ./bin/clogin -c 'show vers' 10.0.0.1
> 10.0.0.1
> spawn telnet 10.0.0.1
> Trying 10.0.0.1...
> Connected to 10.0.0.1 (10.0.0.1).
> Escape character is '^]'.
>
>
> User Access Verification
>
> Password:
> hostname>
> Error: TIMEOUT reached
>
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