RE: Weird behavior when setting trap destination with same username asthe agent username

> From: Dave Stav [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 9:04 AM

> Hello List,

	[chorus]Hi, Dave[/chorus]

> I have noticed an interesting phenomenon when configuring 
> trap destinations and I wanted to ask if this is a bug in 
> net-snmp or is it some behavior I simply do not understand.
> 
> I am running a net-snmp version 5.4.2 on an embedded linux 
> system with kernel 2.6.26-2-686.
> 
> My /etc/snmp/pvgsnmpd.conf contains the following 2 lines only:
> ###########################
> sysservices 1
> rwuser admin  noauth
> ###########################
> 
> And before running the agent for the first time I wrote the 
> following to my /var/lib/net-snmp/pvgsnmpd.conf :
> ###########################
> createUser admin MD5 "administrator"
> ###########################

	Whoa!  That's two "admin" users, otherwise known as "clobbering".  Your problems begin here.  Use only one of these, or change the name of one.

> This allows me to connect to the agent using username admin 
> and either password administrator or user admin with no password.

	...which makes no sense - optional password?  "This safe has a combination, but you can also just turn the handle and the door opens".

	Fix the users and try again, please.


	HTH,

Mike

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