[rancid] Problem with Rancid and Nexus 7000

[john heasley]

Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 11:02:13AM -0500, Matt L:
> So I have Rancid working fine with all my other gear, ASA 5510's, Catalyst
> 3560's, etc.  We recently installed a Nexus 7000 and I have been trying to
> get it going with Rancid.
> 
> I created a new TACACS user for this purpose (due to the way logins work for
> NX-OS), defined it in cloginrc with autoenable as '1'.
> 
> This is what happens if I just run clogin to the box with no extra flags:
> 
> [rancid at linuxhost ~]$ clogin nexus
> nexus
> spawn ssh -c 3des -x -l rancidnx nexus
> #User Access Verification#

where are the #'s coming from?  from your tacacs, i suspect.  that looks
like a cli prompt to clogin.

> Password:
> 
> 
> It just sits there and does nothing at this point.  I can enter the password
> manually and it will login successfully.
> 
> If I remove the autoenable from cloginrc, it will successfully login, but
> then hang there (I assume waiting for enable prompt which will never
> appear).
> 
> Rancid version is 2.3.3 (I have tried with 2.3.6 clogin separately as well).
> 
> NX-OS version is 5.1(2).
> 
> Obviously until I can get past the initial login, I can't test with nxrancid
> or any type of automation.
> 
> Any ideas?  Am I missing something stupid?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Matt

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