SSH login to Cisco switch using Rancid times out

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Published on 2012-08-10T13:52:01Z Indexed on 2013/06/25 22:23 UTC
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I have a 3560 switch that I have configured to accept SSH logins, and this works fine. However I cannot get Rancid to complete the login process to any of my switches using SSH. I get a timeout error after a minute or so. Telnet logins work fine with the same username and password.

Here is my rancid setup in .cloginrc:

add user * {myuser}
add password * {strongAccessPassword}  {strongEnablePassword}
add method * ssh telnet

Then, when I run bin/clogin 10.10.1.10 I get:

# bin/clogin 10.10.1.10
10.10.1.10
spawn ssh -c 3des -x -l myuser 10.10.1.10

###############################################
Please authenticate.
###############################################

Password: 
Error: TIMEOUT reached

Again, when I do this using telnet as my preferred mothod in .cloginrc, it works without issue.

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