Re: Help needed
Wes Hardaker <[email protected]> Wed, 03 Sep 2003 06:44:31 -0700
| Newsgroups | gmane.ietf.snmpv3 |
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| Organization | Sparta |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
>>>>> On Tue, 02 Sep 2003 07:54:04 -0400, Uri Blumenthal <[email protected]> said: Uri> Existing USERS can be re-used. Existing KEYS cannot, as they Uri> are localized - at the NMS level (i.e. NMS itself determines Uri> what the localized key for user X on the managed box Y will Uri> be, and updates that key to this particular value. It's not Uri> the managed box that computes localization - except maybe Uri> for the very first time when/if the key is created from Uri> a password). Which is exactly why the key can be reused. A conforming manager properly using localization all the time can't reuse the KEYs, however more flexible managers (ones that let you directly input localized keys) or evil managers can reuse old keys, for just as you say the managed device doesn't care. -- Wes Hardaker Sparta