Re: Integrating net-SNMP agent into my application

Vincent Bernat <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.net-snmp.user
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OoO En ce début de soirée  du samedi 03 janvier 2009, vers 21:34, "Nikos
Balkanas" <[email protected]> disait :

> Yes, but there are security concerns. Agentx doesn't require authentication 
> and opens up TCP 705. Anyone with access to port 705 on your server can 
> hijack your snmpd master agent, server and application.

Well, it depends. By default, on Unix, it is a socket which is used. You
can  set whatever  rights  you want  on  it (only  writable  by root  by
default).

You can also starts AgentX for localhost only.
-- 
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Someone else stole your IP address, call the Internet detectives!

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