[rancid] Extra Characters after logging in Arista switches

[Jon Lewis]

IIRC, it's an interaction of the Arista, clogin, and your TERM type.  Set 
your TERM env variable to something "plain" like vt100, and it should 
stop doing that.

On Fri, 1 May 2015, Matt Almgren wrote:

> Hi, Im seeing some extra characters appear on the lines after logging in to Arista switches.
>
> Heres an example:
>
> rancid at SITE-tools01:~$ bin/clogin SITE-sw16
> SITE-sw16
> spawn ssh -c 3des -x -l userremoved SITE-sw16
> Password:
> Last login: Fri May  1 19:37:19 2015 from 10.1.1.1
> ^[[0nSITE-sw16#
> SITE-sw16#n
> % Incomplete command
> SITE-sw16#
>
> Yes, the n and control characters above are sic.
>
>
> And heres the config in .cloginrc if that helps:
>
>
> ## Arista
> add method {SITE-sw[16|17|18]*} ssh
> add passprompt {SITE-sw[16|17|18]*} {"\[Pp]assword:"}
> add user {SITE-sw[16|17|18]*} {userremoved}
> add password {SITE-sw[16|17|18]*} {removed}
> add noenable {SITE-sw[16|17|18]*} 1
> #
>
>
> The SITE, IP, username and password have been changed to protect the innocent.
>
>
> Logging in manually with same username and password doesnt do this:
>
> rancid at SITE-tools01:~$ ssh userremoved at SITE-sw16
> Password:
> Last login: Fri May  1 19:40:44 2015 from 10.1.1.1
> SITE-sw16#
> SITE-sw16#
> SITE-sw16#
>
> We use TAC+ for ALL authentication if that adds any help figuring out this problem.
>
> Thanks, Matt
>
>

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