[rancid] Email Alerts - Including Username That Did Change ? Possible ?

[heasley]

Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 07:58:06AM +0200, Alan McKinnon:
> On 05/08/2013 04:33, Wilkinson, Alex wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Is it possible to have included in the RANCID email alerts the user-name that did the actual change ?
> > 
> 
> 
> I doubt it. That information is not usually stored in the device's
> config. Rancid is limited to using information it can acquire from a
> telnet/ssh login session.
> 
> The user who made a change can be gotten from tacacs accounting logs or
> possibly from syslog.

this the best way.  there is a way trigger rancid run from syslogs; see
the FAQ.