SNMP V3 feature request

Pavan Kumar <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.net-snmp.devel
Message-ID <CADGqK_s-ARzVzpF85StnHEuAKcgQ2aGXuPaUM0+cNGDzycQ-Yw@mail.gmail.com>
Hi

For the scripted environments, the authPriv option in v3 requires the
passphrases to be given along with other options of the snmp commands
(snmpget, snmpwalk etc). So whoever gains access to scripts, they are
able to intercept the credentials. To prevent incidents like this,
along with existing options, can we have some public/private key based
or ssl/tls certificates based encryption added as well? because
private keys will always have 400 perms, it is much safer than passing
passphrases along with other options.

Thanks
Pavan
lmpx.com only provides a reader for public news (NNTP) servers. It is not affiliated with the servers or forums shown here and is not responsible for the content of articles, which is written by their respective authors.