[rancid] clogin not catching my "Password: " prompt

heasley heas at shrubbery.net
Thu Oct 12 22:17:56 UTC 2017


Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 04:40:28PM +0000, Gauthier, Chris:
> Hi,
> 
> Recently, we changed authentication types on our Cisco switches and my rancid installation stopped authenticating.  I modified my .cloginrc appropriately (config below).  The target is “sw003core.example.com”.  I am running rancid 3.6.2 and the target switch is a Cisco 3850.
> 
> add method   * {ssh}
> add user     * {user}
> add password * {password1} {password1}
> add autoenable sw*.example.com {1}
> 
> The switch has a pre-login banner.  Here is what it looks like when I manually log in using my own username:
> user at host:~ $ ssh sw003core.example.com
> CCCCC
> ############################################################

dont use #s in banners.  fix that, and your login will work again.



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