[rancid] FW: Re: Clogin error

shouldbe q931 shouldbeq931 at gmail.com
Thu Aug 23 21:15:18 UTC 2012


On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 8:28 PM, Parekh, Birju <bparekh at nmff.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I cannot telnet into my devices but SSH works with the same username and
> password. When I ran clogin device name. I got the following error
>
> clogin error: Error: Check your passwd
>
>
>
> This is in my .clogin
>
>
>
> #RANCID USER
>
> add user * username
>
> add password * {password}
>
> add method * {telnet} {ssh}
>
>
>
> The devices which have ssh enabled can login fine but the devices with
> telnet I am not able to login. The screen stops at username.
>
> spawn telnet x.x.x.x
>
> Trying x.x.x.x
>
> Connected to x.x.x.x
>
> Escape character is '^]'.
>
>
>
> username:
>
>
>
> I was initially polling using IP address. I have changed that to adding
> device names in host file and updated the router.db with the host file. But
> now I am unable to login or retrieve config from the devices using rancid.
>
>
>
>
>
> Birju Parekh
>
> Network & Voice Engineer
>
> Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation
>
> 680 N Lake Shore Driver Suite 1118
>
> Chicago, IL 60611
>
> Phone (312) 695 4775
>
> Email: Bparekh at nmff.org
>
>

you haven;t given the reason why you can't telnet into the device, but
it would appear to be sitting at a username prompt and not
progfressing

have you tried just using ssh (removing telnet from the method) ?


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