snmpd.conf community strings with a space?

Hi I'm testing out some code that is both sending and receiving traps
from net-snmp I have noticed that if you double quote the community
string in snmpd.conf like this:

 

trap2sink 10.10.10.10 "public"

 

It will actually send the trap with the quotes in the community string.
I verified this in wireshark.  However when I use snmptrapd it will not
authenticate that community string when entered as either "public" or
public.  Wasn't able to find a way to authenticate with the quotes as it
seems to interpret the configuration differently than snmpd.conf.

 

I know that it works properly if I drop the quotes in snmpd.conf so
tempted to just head this route; but if we desired to be able to support
community strings that contain a space how can that be accomplished
without sending the trap with the quotes in the packet?  Or are spaces
disallowed in community strings in snmp  all together?  I searched
through some of the RFCs and it looked like they just say it is an octet
string without a whole lot of qualification about the specific
characters allowed.  I did some searches on various vendors and it
looked like some allow space and some do not so curious if net-snmp has
some way of handling them?

 

 

Thanks for any advice in this matter,

 

Jared

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