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 <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 3, 2023 12:41 PM
To: [email protected]
Cc: Piegorsch, Weylin William <[email protected]>
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 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> 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@my-switch” login works fine from the rancid account on the same server.

[rancid@nsgv-prod-59 ~]$ read passwd
***********redacted
[rancid@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@nsgv-prod-59 ~]$ clogin -V
rancid 3.4.1
[rancid@nsgv-prod-59 ~]$





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