After Login Commands

Hi,
Is it only for Putty or for any type of application?

Putty is the only application I can think of to use it for.

Is it only because you want to include a password in the After command?

In some cases yes. I would also use it for

- moving to "enable" mode on a Cisco device
- enacting "super user" mode in Linux
- advance through menu prompt on a number of firewall platforms.

I would like to be able to do this as well. Was there any update on this?

+1
We would like to do a "su -" with a second credential object.
edited by Peter Cermak (POI) on 11/14/2013

Hi,
For the su- with the second credentials, you could use the custom variable in the information tab

How do i fill the custom variable with a field from a SecretServer Secret?

You want the session to read the credential custom variable? What I was suggesting was to put the password value in the session custom variable but I don't think it's what you want, isn't?

All our Password are safelystored in SecretServer, i could not want to put Root Passwords anywhere eslse, especially since the passwords can be changed from SecretServer automatically on demand.

In fact i want the session to first open the ssh connection with CredentialNORMALUSER then enter su- in the opened Session und type in the the Password field from CredentialROOT.

We could (should be testet for this case) use a Powershell script to retrieve the Password from SecretServer, but this would be quite slow, since the persons in question are Linux Admins (some with XP clients without powershell) and Powershell takes quite some time to start due to loading the .net-framework at startup (as we all know).

Ok,
What I think we could do is include a credential to a macro/script/tool. This macro could be executed manually right after the connection. I will think about it but I have few ideas. You scenario makes a lot of sense.

Any news on this?

It's not implemented yet but I will do my best to squeeze that in RDM 9.5

We hope, there is enough spacetime to squeeze it in :cool:

Push :-)

I will work on this today but could we resume what would be the solution? I think that I could just add $TOOL_USERNAME$ and $TOOL_PASSWORD$. This will access the credentials from tools.

What do you think?

Yes, this looks practiblae.
Then we use batch edit to put a Tools-Credential from the Repository (SecretServer) and Edit the after login commands. <- Right?

Hi David,
Unfortunately the variable $TOOL_PASSWORD$ does NOT work!

We tried with SecretServer first and thought that it's maybe a problem with cascading Hostnames or something...

Then we tried entering the passwrod directly into theTools-custom credential field, but an after login command echo $TOOL_PASSWORD$shows only "echo " in the putty window.

btw. "su-" does not use a Username, only the Password. And it's working when we enter the pwd in a custom field. su-
$COMPANY_CUSTOM_FIELD1$is working correctly.

Could you please have a look at this - and maybe verify it's working with Credential entries (best from SecretServer).

Hi,
I have verified and I think I know what could be your issue. Make sure that Allow password variable is also checked in the credential entry. This is a security feature to make sure that nobody is able to echo an entry if you don't want to.

Thank you, David! It's working as expected. :-)

Another question regarding this Workflow:
How do i change Subconnections? (Batch Edit, Powershell,...)
We have a structure like this:
Server1
- Server1 root
- Server1 SFTP

And i would like to configure all Subconnections "ServerX root" to work like this.
We only found a click-storm as solution for this ...

Unfortunately we don't support the batch edit for sub connection yet. I hope to have something eventually.

Is there any way to send a single Linebreak as an after login command?
We need this to enter an empty RSA-Passphrase which only accepts linebreak.
We tried "more commands" but this just moves the text entered here into the command 1..4. And it ignores "empty" lines.

I'm not sure if it's possible. We might have to create a special key for that. The {Enter} does not work?

Thank you David, {Enter} is working.

Since it's not obvious (i thought of <Enter>), this information could be integrated into the "View Variable List" function in the GUI. Maybe a Tab "Special Characters".

I will add an help button beside the textbox. I can't add this to the variable since those special keys are only available in script.