[rancid] Can't login to device

[Alan McKinnon]

On 16/10/2013 14:08, Ryan Johnson wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I used http://openmaniak.com/rancid_tutorial.php tutorial for installing Rancid on my Windows + Cygwin machine.
> However I cannot connect to any device via "clogin x.x.x.x". To be honest, I have no idea why. 
> I have ping, telent and ssh working from my cygwin machine to my network equipment.
> 
> Let's assume that I have catalyst 2600 switch with local username and password. I can access it via telnet.
> 
> In my .cloginrc file there are lines as above:
> add method 10.1.1.40 telnet
> add user 10.1.1.40 ryan 
> add password 10.1.1.40 magicPass enablePass
> 
> At /home/rancid/var/groupName/router.db looks like that:
> 10.1.1.40:cisco:up
> 
> But when I'm trying to execute clogin command, nothing happens:
> 
> Administrator at backup /home/rancid
> $ /home/rancid/bin/clogin 10.2.3.40
> Administrator at backup /home/rancid
> 
> Can anyone help?

The lack of output is extremely unusual.

Check permissions on ~/.cloginrc, the file cannot be world readable or
writeable. I've had it silently fail on me before.

then try

clogin -d <host>

the output is very verbose, so it's best to redirect it or pipe it to
less and examine it closely.



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Alan McKinnon
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