[rancid] Unable to Login via clogin

[Piegorsch, Weylin William]

Thanks.  I had that thought too, so I made sure first that I wasn’t using any special characters.  There are no non-alphanumeric characters in the password I’m using - no spaces, quotes, emojis, wingdings etc.





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From: Andreas Ott <andreas at naund.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 3, 2023 12:41 PM
To: rancid-discuss at sea.shrubbery.net
Cc: Piegorsch, Weylin William <weylin at bu.edu>
Subject: Re: [rancid] Unable to Login via clogin

In case your password has non-alphanumeric characters in it, try enclosing the variable substitution on the shell in single or double quotes. You can rule out if that is your issue by temporarily setting the password to just a random string of only alphanumeric [A-Za-z0-9]. In my experience passwords with all kinds of characters will be properly quoted and used by clogin when they are set in {} inside .cloginrc .
-andreas

On Tue, May 2, 2023 at 10:10 PM Piegorsch, Weylin William <weylin at bu.edu<mailto:weylin at bu.edu>> wrote:
Anyone know what I’m doing wrong here?  I’ve verified password and devices names are correct, password has nothing but alphanumerics, and “ssh weylin at my-switch” login works fine from the rancid account on the same server.

[rancid at nsgv-prod-59 ~]$ read passwd
***********redacted
[rancid at nsgv-prod-59 ~]$ clogin -u weylin -p $passwd my-switch
my-switch
spawn ssh -2 -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o LogLevel=ERROR -c aes128-ctr,aes192-ctr,aes256-ctr,aes128-cbc,3des-cbc,aes192-cbc,aes256-cbc -x -l weylin my-switch
Password:
Password:

Error: Couldn't login: my-switch
[rancid at nsgv-prod-59 ~]$ clogin -V
rancid 3.4.1
[rancid at nsgv-prod-59 ~]$





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