[rancid] Re: OK I'm confused, .cloginrc not working

[Todd Heide]

When I upgrade this, should I do it as rancid user or root? Readme
doesn't particularly say so. 

Thanks
Todd

-----Original Message-----
From: john heasley [mailto:heas at shrubbery.net] 
Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 12:01 PM
To: Todd Heide
Cc: Rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
Subject: Re: [rancid] Re: OK I'm confused, .cloginrc not working

Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 10:10:19AM -0600, Todd Heide:
> Yep DOH on my part. I ran it with -d and got an error
> Error: Unknown argument! -d

-d is right.  if it does not accept it you are not running the latest.
please install 2.3.2a9.  then we can talk.  Also, actually read what
Chris posted and consider how it relates to the your post.

> Ran it as  bin/clogin -f /usr/local/rancid/.cloginrc hostname, and it
> fails to authenticate. 
> 
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 
> Password:
> 
> % Authentication failed
> 
> Password:
> Error: Check your passwd for
> 
> Thanks
> Todd 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Knight [mailto:boheme at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 7:50 PM
> To: Todd Heide; Rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
> Subject: Re: [rancid] Re: OK I'm confused, .cloginrc not working
> 
> Your problem is that the rancid tools are not in your path.  You
> either need to envoke clogin fully pathed (ie
> /usr/local/rancid/bin/clogin )  or you need to fix your path.
> 
> You might want to make sure you understand how unix paths work, as
> this is something that will bite you again and again over the coming
> years:  http://kb.iu.edu/data/acar.html
> 
> -Chris
> 
> On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Todd Heide <Todd at equivoice.com> wrote:
> > bash: clogin: command not found
> >
> > Thanks
> > 
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: john heasley [mailto:heas at shrubbery.net]
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 4:46 PM
> > To: Todd Heide
> > Cc: rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
> > Subject: Re: [rancid] Re: OK I'm confused, .cloginrc not working
> >
> > Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 04:22:16PM -0600, Todd Heide:
> >> Correction, I found I had ( instead of { for the all else password,
> so
> >> AAA appears to work, but the individuals are not working still.
> >
> > try clogin -d hostname
> >
> > and look for the password exchanges to verify the correct strings
are
> > being sent.  my guess would be that you have an unquoted special
char
> > in one of your passwords.
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