[rancid] Re: rancid bombing out on "dir /all disk0:" when command not authorized by AAA

john heasley heas at shrubbery.net
Tue Mar 9 19:39:13 UTC 2010


Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 04:27:03PM +1100, Dale Shaw:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm running RANCID 2.3.2 on Ubuntu 9.04.
> 
> I'm trying to collect configs from a bunch of Cisco ASA 5500 series firewalls.
> 
> Recently we brought them into production and as part of that exercise,
> enabled AAA (TACACS). The command set doesn't permit some of the
> commands RANCID is attempting to execute. It looks like it's bombing
> out when parsing the output from 'dir /all disk0:', which in this case
> is "Command authorization failed".
> 
> I'll probably just end up adding this command to the authorised set,
> but am I missing something or is this behaviour a bit .. ungraceful?
> :-)

nope; it expects to be able to run the commands and was not written with
the idea that folks would care that it be able to run them.


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