Re: Creating USM user at run-time, NOT through snmpUsmMIB, is it possible?

Thomas Anders <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.net-snmp.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Makavy, Erez (Erez) wrote:
> The snmpUsmMIB allows creating new USM users only by cloning existing ones.
> I want to allow creating new users from scratch, during run-time.
>  
> 1) Would this mean hacking into net-snmp data structure of the usmUserTable?
> 2) Or Is there an API for that? (that includes building an authorization 
> key from the pass-phrase and engineID)

I'm not aware of anything else but snmpUsmMIB and config file tokens 
(createUser, usmUser).

Where do you want to manage the users *from*? Remote systems or 
localhost only? Why exactly is it a problem for you to preconfigure an 
initial user to clone from?


+Thomas

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Thomas Anders (thomas.anders at blue-cable.de)


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