Re: external authentification

Torsten Bitterlich <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.net-snmp.user
Organization port GmbH
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Am Dienstag 22 Juni 2010 17:15:03 schrieb Wes Hardaker:
> >>>>> 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
> 

Thanks for the clearification. Can you specify the term "Tunneling over SSH - 
not 100% supported in Net-SNMP" more clearly. I would like to know what is, 
and what is not working. Is it usable and are there any SNMP-Managers 
supporting this transport?

Thanks and regards,
 
-- 
with best regards / mit freundlichen Grüßen

Torsten Bitterlich

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