Re: snmpv3 authorization error

"Dave Shield" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.net-snmp.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 18/02/2008, Steve McCarthy <[email protected]> wrote:
> I then added rwuser steve1 noauth and rwuser steve3 auth to my snmpd.conf
> file that also had rocommunity and rwcommunity settings. I then added
> createUser stevev1 and createUser stevev3 MD5 "my_password" DES to my
> persistent snmpd.conf file.


> snmpget –v 3 –u steve1 –l noAuthNoPriv –A my_password –a MD5 targetIP
> Objectname
>     on the noauth user, I successfully get the response data.

> snmpget –v 3 –u steve3 –l noAuthNoPriv –A my_password –a MD5 targetIP
> Objectname
>     on the auth user I get AuthorizationError (access denied to the object)

> snmpget –v 3 –u steve –l noAuthNoPriv –A my_password –a MD5 targetIP
> Objectname
>     I get Unknown user name as expected.

All of those seem as expected.


> snmpget –v 3 –u steve3 –l AuthNoPriv –A my_password –a MD5 targetIP
> Objectname
>     on the auth user I get Authentication failure

Try running the agent with the option "-Dusm"
(or if your application doesn't support the -D flag, then add the line
      debug_register_tokens("usm");   and recompile).

That might give some indication as to exactly where the authentication
is failing.

Dave

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