Re: Format of JetDirect SNMPv3 authentication, privacy keys?

Goltz, Jim (NIH/NLM/LHC) [C] wrote:
> However, the JetDirect configuration seems to want 16-byte values in
> hexadecimal.  Does anyone know how I convert arbitrary passwords into
> these 16-byte values?  I see a couple of such values in
> /var/net-snmp/snmpd.conf after running net-snmp-config, in the "usmUser"
> directive.  If these are them, does anyone know which is which?  I've
> tried both for each key, with no success.

The format of the usmUser entry (see snmplib/snmpusm.c:usm_read_user()
for details) is:

usmUser <userStatus> <userStorageType> <engineID> <name> <secName>
<cloneFrom> <authProtocol> <authKey> <privProtocol> <privKey>
<userPublicString>

You're probably looking for <authKey> and/or <privKey>.


+Thomas


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