[rancid] cisco login prompt changes

heasley heas at shrubbery.net
Fri Dec 7 20:07:39 UTC 2018


Fri, Dec 07, 2018 at 07:59:20PM +0000, Hagen, Skye (skyeh at uidaho.edu):
> The prompts for user name and password can also come from your TACACS server. Also, you can change the prompts.

I made an assumption that Wayne knows if he is doing that or not. :)  but,
users who choose to do that, can use userprompt in their .cloginrc to
adjust the match.  see cloginrc(5)

> 
> aaa new-model
> aaa authentication login REMOTE group tacacs+ local
> !
> aaa authentication fail-message #
> Local authentication failed. 
> #
> aaa authentication password-prompt "Enter local password:"
> aaa authentication username-prompt "Enter local username:"
> !
> user a secret b
> !
> line vty 0 4
>  login authentication REMOTE
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rancid-discuss <rancid-discuss-bounces at shrubbery.net> On Behalf Of heasley
> Sent: Friday, December 7, 2018 11:50 AM
> To: Wayne Eisenberg <Wayne.Eisenberg at carolinasit.com>
> Cc: 'rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net' <rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net>
> Subject: Re: [rancid] cisco login prompt changes
> 
> Fri, Dec 07, 2018 at 10:08:50AM +0000, Wayne Eisenberg:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > BTW, I've been seeing on a few cisco devices where the username prompt is now 'User Name:' or 'User name:' instead of 'user name:'. Should the next rancid version update the 'set u_prompt' line to something like
> >         set u_prompt "(\[Uu]sername|Login|login|\[Uu]ser \[Nn]ame|User):"
> > to account for the possible case change?
> > 
> > Wayne
> 
> yes.
> 
> Dear Cisco,  Please stop making changes for the sake of change.
> 
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