Re: external authentification

Wes Hardaker <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.net-snmp.user
Organization Sparta
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>>>>> On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 11:13:55 +0200, Torsten Bitterlich <[email protected]> said:

TB> I would like to know if there are any new developments on external
TB> authentication for SNMP. Is it possible to use PAM or any external
TB> mechanism to authenticate users ? For the current release I could
TB> not find any hint on such a topic.

SNMPv3 with USM doesn't support external authentication.

Net-SNMP 5.6 has two different forms of 'other authentication' that
include SSH (which would use PAM) and TLS (which uses X.509
certificates).  I actually just wrote up details on this yesterday at:

  http://www.net-snmp.org/wiki/index.php/TUT:Security

-- 
Wes Hardaker
Cobham Analytic Solutions

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