Re: sending V3 traps with trapsess

"Dave Shield" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.net-snmp.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 09/04/2008, Josh Bers <[email protected]> wrote:
>  I am concerned that there is a security risk involved with adding such
>  trapsess commands into the world readable /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf file. Is
>  there a way to suppress the printing of the passwords in this file

The "snmpcmd(1)" man page implies that you should be able to
use the -3[mMkK] options to set hex keys instead of text-based
passwords.
   I haven't tried this, but it should work with trapsess as well.
And particularly with localized keys, the hex value will be
of no use whatsoever on another system.

> or to  include it in the /var/net-snmp location instead...

Ummm...   pass.
That would certainly work, but I'm not sure what would happen
when you stop/restart the agent.

Suck it and see.


>  or should we just make
>  the /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf readable only by root?

That's probably the simplest approach!

Dave

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