[rancid] Re: DONE: Implementation of the (generic) linux configuration backup-versioning DEVELOPMENT VERSION

[Thomas Donnelly]

Also with FreeBSD remote root logins are not permitted by default so I 
would have to change that on every one of my servers.

-=Tom

Sam Munzani wrote:
> Diego,
>
> Many companies don't allow root user for the SSH. So usually its login 
> as normal user then either "su -" or "sudo su -". I think this script 
> can be more useful if it considers non root logins.
>
> My 2 cents.
>
> Thanks,
> Sam
>> Hello to all,
>> I finished modules for the archive of linux configuration.
>> It's a development version so please dear developer support it in the main 
>> trunk
>>
>>
>> I wrote 2 modules:
>> llogin
>> lrancid
>>
>>
>> ---------- LLOGIN --------------------
>>
>>
>> llogin is based on clogin 2.3.2 script, try to login via ssh and telnet. It 
>> should login as root.
>>
>> I did many modification to the clogin script, and I suppose a better check and 
>> better diagnostic look.
>>
>> The point of view I started from is that linux normally stores configurations 
>> as files in the filesystem, every distribution use its own directory structure 
>> and often, an entire backup of /etc directory is too redundant so I added a 
>> new configuration parameter in the .cloginrc and a new "MetaCommand" that is 
>> BackupFiles that is runned by llogin script using .cloginrc files to feed it.
>>
>>
>> The new parameter in the .cloginrc is "backupfile", so you need to add for 
>> your linux machines at least a line in the .cloginrc file in the clogin 
>> syntax:
>>
>> add backupfile <glob host identifier> <path/filename> [path/filename] ...
>>
>> if you want you can of course add new files in a new line; this is the reason 
>> why I modified the clogin "add" procedure to feed correctly the 
>> int_backupfiles global variable the llogin script is using.
>>
>> I wrote a new procedure that is send_debug that, when called with a string as 
>> parameter, prints a gren "Debug:" followed by the string, if debug is on. 
>> (this of course is to increment visibility of check strings along the expect 
>> debug stream.
>>
>> --------- LRANCID ---------
>> lrancid is a modified version of rancid 2.3.2 that calls llogin with the 
>> BackupFiles metacommand as command argument.
>> It have some hack to optimize the output of the llogin script, but is more or 
>> less very similar to the rancid script
>>
>> ----------- rancid-fe -----------------
>> I of course modified the rancid-fe script to manage a new device category that 
>> is "linux".
>> I'm attaching it to complete the contribution.
>>
>> ----------- sample .cloginrc ----------------------
>> here is my cloginrc file part that is regarded to the linux machine:
>>
>>   
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> CUT >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>                           
>> add method linux.machine.domain ssh rlogin
>> add user linux.machine.domain root
>> add password linux.machine.domain thepassword thepassword
>> add autoenable linux.machine.domain 1
>> add backupfile linux.machine.domain /etc/issue 
>> add backupfile linux.machine.domain /etc/network/interfaces
>> #add backupfile linux.machine.domain /etc/network/interfaces
>> <<<<<<<<<<<<<< CUT <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
>>
>> Hope this would help many of you
>> Diego Ercolani
>>
>>
>>
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