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Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 09:21:16AM -0600, Zhang, Anchi:
> Greetings,
>
> In trying to change the enable password on about 100 CatOS devices, I have a
> bourn shell script calling
>
> clogin -c "set enablepass $2$UTXb$gcYEfPcOCt0Ths6szOXc0" $hostname
>
> However, no matter how I quote the encrypted password and/or escape meta
> character $, clogin either fails or executes with an empty password. Using
> "clogin -x <filename>" produces the same effect.
>
> Your pointers, please.
>
> Anchi

$ identifies a variable in shell(s) and expect/tcl. if you single quote
the command, it will be protected from shell expansion. and, without
try it myself, expect may double-eval the command resulting in variable
expansion which could be protected by escaping the $s, as in \$.

clogin -c 'set enablepass \$2\$UTXb\$gcYEfPcOCt0Ths6szOXc0' $hostname

try this with caution. you should have an enable'd login in another
window.

That works beautifully. Many thanks.

How would you rely on Rancid to add the following to IOS devices?

banner motd ^
************************************************************************

THIS IS A PRIVATE COMPUTING SYSTEM, RESTRICTED TO AUTHORIZED USERS ONLY.
IF YOU DO NOT HAVE AUTHORIZATION, YOU ARE WARNED TO DISCONNECT AT ONCE.

************************************************************************^

On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 02:30:51PM -0600, Zhang, Anchi wrote:
> How would you rely on Rancid to add the following to IOS devices?
>
> banner motd ^
> ************************************************************************
>
> THIS IS A PRIVATE COMPUTING SYSTEM, RESTRICTED TO AUTHORIZED USERS ONLY.
> IF YOU DO NOT HAVE AUTHORIZATION, YOU ARE WARNED TO DISCONNECT AT ONCE.
>
> ************************************************************************^

Stick it into a file on your tftp server & use a modification of
util/cisco-load.exp to load it.
--asp