Re: SNMP v3 user chg pwd

Thomas Anders <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.net-snmp.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
[email protected] wrote:
> The entry of createUser initial MD5 setup_passphrase DES present in 
> /usr/local/share/snmp/snmp.conf is equivalent to entry in 
> /var/net-snmp/snmpd.conf ?
> 
> The entry in /var/net-snmp/ would be encrypted when the snmpd starts 
> running and the password is not visible for anybody.
> 
> If both are equivalent entries in snmpd.conf then why do we generally 
> use /usr/local/share/snmp/snmpd.conf for this entry?

The createUser directive should go into the persistent config file 
(usually /var/net-snmp/snmpd.conf) where it will be replaced by a 
corresponding usmUser entry, as documented in the manual pages.


+Thomas

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


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