Updating local accounts password

Hi,

I am trying to update the local account on all of my Juniper and some Cisco devices, but I could not get this to work. I did not get an error and I got the print at the end of the for loop. When I logged in to any of the device 10.1.1.1, the account I was using for testing, the password did not change.

from netmiko import ConnectHandler
import getpass

junos_list = ['10.1.1.1']

username = input("Username : ")
password = getpass.getpass("Password : ")


print("Enter the account you would like to update")
local_user = input("Local account username : ")
new_password = input ("Enter the new password : ")


#Juniper device root account
if (local_username == "root") and (username == "admin"):   
    for i in junos_list:
        userssh = ConnectHandler(device_type='juniper_junos', ip=i, port=22, username=username, password=password)
        root_login_cred = ('set system root-authentication plain-text-password')
        root_login_passwd = (new_password)
        root_login_confirm_passwd = (new_password)
        userssh.send_config_set(root_login_cred)
        userssh.send_config_set(root_login_passwd)
        userssh.send_config_set(root_login_confirm_passwd)
        userssh.disconnect()
        print("\n\tThe root password has been updated for", i)
else:
    for la in junos_list:
        userssh = ConnectHandler(device_type='juniper_junos', ip=la, port=22, username=username, password=password)
        la_login_cred = ('set system login user ' + local_user +  ' authentication plain-text-password')
        la_login_passwd = (new_password)
        la_login_confirm_passwd = (new_password)
        config_commands = ([la_login_cred, la_login_passwd, la_login_passwd])
        userssh.send_config_set(config_commands)
        userssh.send_config_set(la_login_passwd)
        userssh.send_config_set(la_login_confirm_passwd)
        userssh.commit()
        userssh.disconnect()
        print("\n\tThe password has been updated for node", la)
        

[dasiimwe]

@ktbyers, Thanks for the quick response. Will do.

Meanwhile, i found a work around for this. Junos has a hidden command ‘plain-text-password-value’ that allows you to enter the password on the same line and avoid the password prompt.

source: https://www.reddit.com/r/networking/comments/9ptwte/python_and_junos

[ktbyers]

@dasiimwe You should open a new issue (or better would be a Netmiko Github discussion question).

Regards, Kirk