[rancid] Rancid Login to device with wrong username and password

[Sathish Kumar. Ippani]

Thanks Shoaib,

Thanks for your inputs.

I have already configured .cloginrc with correct username and password also given cisco name for reference only.

Regards,
sathish

-----Original Message-----
From: Muhammad Shoaib [mailto:mshoaib at paciolan.com]
Sent: Monday, February 26, 2018 12:10 PM
To: rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net; Sathish Kumar. Ippani
Subject: Re: Rancid Login to device with wrong username and password

Hi Sathish,

You can define the following in your .cloginrc to use ³cisco² as a username as :

# Cisco switches
add user ciscoswitch01 cisco
add userpassword ciscoswitch01 {password} add password ciscoswitch01 {password} {password} add method ciscoswitch01 {ssh} {telnet}



The first line define the username Š here it is "cisco"
Second line is the password
Third line is the first and then enable password Last line is the method Š here it will try ssh first then telnet.
ciscoswitch01 - it is your device hostname and it should resolved to an ip address. You can use either DNS or /etc/hosts file for resolution.


As Heasley mentioned Š this file sits under rancid root directory and named ³.cloginrc²

Also Randy has a point not to use ³cisco² as a username for security reason. You can create user ³rancid² or any other and update your .cloginrc file.

Hope it is helpful.

mS

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Muhammad Shoaib
Sr. Mgr, Network Engineering





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>> I have configured deferent username(cisco) to login to cisco device.
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