vtysh is integrated shell of Quagga software.
To use vtysh please specify —enable-vtysh to configure script. To use PAM for authentication use —with-libpam option to configure script.
vtysh only searches /usr/local/etc path for vtysh.conf which is the vtysh configuration file. Vtysh does not search current directory for configuration file because the file includes user authentication settings.
Currently, vtysh.conf has only two commands.
With this set, user foo does not need password authentication for user vtysh. With PAM vtysh uses PAM authentication mechanism.
If vtysh is compiled without PAM authentication, every user can use vtysh without authentication. vtysh requires read/write permission to the various daemons vty sockets, this can be accomplished through use of unix groups and the –enable-vty-group configure option.
Instruct daemons to write out their config files when 'write file' is issued.
This command controls the behaviour of vtysh when it is told to write out the configuration. If write-conf integrated is set, the daemon will write out a Quagga.conf with all daemons' commands integrated into it. If write-conf daemon is set, vtysh will instruct each daemon to write out their config files.
Vtysh per default behaves as if write-conf daemon is set. Note that both may be set at same time if one wishes to have both Quagga.conf and daemon specific files written out. Further, note that the daemons are hard-coded to first look for the integrated Quagga.conf file before looking for their own file.
We recommend you do not mix the use of the two types of files. Further, it is better not to use the integrated Quagga.conf file, as any syntax error in it can lead to /all/ of your daemons being unable to start up. Per daemon files are more robust as impact of errors in configuration are limited to the daemon in whose file the error is made.