[rancid] Password not accepted after restore from Rancid backup

[simon ben]

Dear All,
I have the below Rancid setup working perfectly for sometime and just faced a issue after a restore of switch Config to the new switch
Centos 8rancid version 3.9
Now I wanted to replace a failed switch so using tftp i restored my rancid backup to the switch Now when from he console it asks me for a username which is adminand i put the password its not accepting( all our switches configure with username and password ) 
after some troubleshooting I found that there is  username in my backed-up rancid config file and also on the restored one on my new switch but the password is removed---------
!username admin privilege 15 password <removed>

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also in line console 0 i see the below
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| line con 0 |
| 807 |  exec-timeout 5 0 |
| 808 | ! password <removed> |


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so i realized that after i had restored the backup i had to create user and assigned a password for him
So just wanted to know if this the right practice i need to go about or do i need to follow another way
really appreciate your advise and help

Thanks and regards
Simon
 
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