Re: Encrypting trapsess entries in snmpd.conf

On Tue, 23 Jan 2007, Michael Kirkham wrote:

> Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 03:44:56 -0800 (PST)
> From: Michael Kirkham <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Encrypting trapsess entries in snmpd.conf
> 
>
> I'd say bug, because it also causes users created via SNMP to receive
> SNMPv3 informs via the target/notification MIBs to be deleted on reboot,
> and readOnly (according to the StorageType TC) should be saved to
> persistent storage, unlike nonVolatile.  I submitted a patch (1642071)
> about this yesterday:

Err, unlike volatile [it's late].

>
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1642071&group_id=12694&atid=312694
>
>> This doesn't quite work as you would hope though.
>>
>> While the user information is used to send the trap, the act of
>> configuring the "trapsess" directive causes create_user_from_session
>> to set the storage type for the user to "read-only".
>> When snmpd is stopped and it writes the persistent snmpd.conf
>> file, it then does not write the information back for this user,
>> since it ignores those entries that are not non-volatile (in
>> usm_save_users_from_list) - which this entry was, until messed
>> about with by create_user_from_session.
>> So, the next time you start snmpd, it stops working...
>>
>> Bug? Feature? Other?
>>
>> Phil
>
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