[rancid] FW: Re: Clogin error

[shouldbe q931]

On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 10:17 PM, Parekh, Birju <bparekh at nmff.org> wrote:
> I cannot do that since some of my switches are running an older IOS and don't have SSH availbe. It is hanging at the user prompt when I test it with clogin. I got check your password error when I ran rancid-run.
> Thanks
>
> 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
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: shouldbe q931 [mailto:shouldbeq931 at gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2012 4:15 PM
> To: Parekh, Birju
> Cc: rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
> Subject: Re: [rancid] FW: Re: Clogin error
>
> 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) ?
>


you can set the method per device...