[rancid] Re: Small patch for francid (to better permit minimally privileged rancid user)

[Jethro R Binks]

On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, john heasley wrote:

> > In the meantime, here is a small patch against francid 1.42 which is 
> > equivalent to some code in the Cisco rancid to run either of "show 
> > running-config" or "write term", whichever works - currently francid only 
> > tries to run the latter, but by default a priv level 5 ("read only") user 
> > can run little more than "show" commands.  I could use the "privilege" 
> > command to re-assign "write term" to priv level 5, but since "show 
> > running-config" already works anyway, and there is a precedent in (cisco) 
> > rancid, why bother?
> 
> old versions of the foundry code did not support 'show running', iirc.  
> The same for cisco.

Must be very old!  I've had BigIrons and others since around 2002 and I've 
always used "show run".

But anyway, there you go.

Jethro.


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Jethro R Binks
Computing Officer, IT Services
University Of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK