Re: snmpvacm createSec2Group fails with inconsistentValue

Thank you very much for the reply.

The problem is that net-snmp-create-v3-user creates the entry rwuser
in snmpd.conf;
I have to use snmpusm instead (I have already tested this way and it works :-))!

Best Regards,
Giuseppe De Vito

2010/8/2 Dave Shield <[email protected]>:
> On 29 July 2010 15:27, giuseppe de vito <[email protected]> wrote:
>> First of all I have created an administrator user... using the command
>>
>> sudo net-snmp-create-v3-user ....
>
>> It creates the user successfully and I have an entry "rwuser" in
>> /usr/local/share/snmp/snmpd.conf
>
> Note that the "rwuser" entry has already configured access for
> the "administrator" user.
>   Try walking the vacmSecurityToGroupTable, and see what
> it contains.   There should be an entry of the form:
>
> SNMP-VIEW-BASED-ACM-MIB::vacmGroupName.3."administrator" = STRING: administrator
>
>
>
>
>> sudo snmpvacm -v 3 -u administrator -l authNoPriv -a MD5 -A
>>     auth_password localhost createSec2Group 3 administrator adminGroup
>>
>> This command fails with output:
>>
>> Error in packet.
>> Reason: inconsistentValue (The set value is illegal or unsupported in some way)
>> Failed object: SNMP-VIEW-BASED-ACM-MIB::vacmSecurityToGroupStatus.3."administrator"
>
> That's correct.
> The 'snmpvacm' command is attempting to create an entry in the
> vacmSecurityToGroupTable for the SNMPv3 user "administrator".
>  But there is already such an entry, so you can't create another one.
> (A user can only be in one group!)
>
>
>
> You should either configure access via the config file  ("r[wo]user"),
> *or* via "snmpvacm".  Don't try to mix the two.
>
> Dave
>

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