Re: Error using SNMPv3 in SUSE 9,3

Yeah, great. Parsing problem was the right hint. The entry made by the
create-user command was:

createUser nagios AuNg6ud4thaiK8EJ "MD5" AuNg6ud4thaiK8EJ DES


But the algorithm has to be in front of the password:

createUser nagios "MD5" AuNg6ud4thaiK8EJ DES AuNg6ud4thaiK8EJ 

Then, after restarting the daemon, everything works like expected.

Thanks a lot for your help. I think on my own, I never would have seen
this error (I'm not so experienced with netsnmp till now)

Regards.
Nils





On 06.08.2010 15:12, Ron Rader wrote:
> Nils:
>
>   
>> adding the following line to /var/lib/net-snmp/snmpd.conf:
>>    createUser nagios AuNg6ud4thaiK8EJ "MD5" AuNg6ud4thaiK8EJ DES
>> adding the following line to /usr/share/snmp/snmpd.conf:
>>    rouser nagios
>>     
>   OK, now what ends up in your snmpd log file after you restart the
> agent?  You must restart snmpd before you can use any new createUser
> lines.  Also note that your persistent createUser lines in
> /var/lib/net-snmp/snmpd.conf will change to more cryptic usmUser lines
> after they're processed by the agent.
>
>   
>> the password I've set is actually 16 chars long, just didn't want to
>> write it here
>>     
>   That's fair.
>
>   
>>>> Logfile says:
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> /var/lib/net-snmp/snmpd.conf: line 35: Error: Unknown
>>>>>           
> authentication
>   
>>>> protocol
>>>>
>>>> line 35 is
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> oldEngineID 0x80001f8880b7ecfe285bdf654300000000
>>>>>           
>   I suspect the line number weirdness might have something to do with
> the createUser -> usmUser transformation.  I am also a bit mystified as
> to why the script used "MD5" as the authentication protocol; as far as I
> know this datum should not be double quoted but should read MD5.  Notice
> how the encryption selection is not quoted (DES)?
>
>   It might be useful to add your own createUser lines by hand to
> experiment.
>
>   
>>>   Any encryption requires that your SUSE platform has the OpenSSL
>>> libraries installed
>>>       
>   
>> On the system is openssl 0.9.7e , openssl-32bit 9.3 and openssl-devel
>> 0.9.7e  installed.
>>     
>   That's good.  You didn't seem to get snmpd errors complaining about
> invalid encryption selections, which are expected when the agent doesn't
> have access to OpenSSL.
>
>   I think you're suffering from some sort of parsing problem between
> net-snmp-config and snmpd.
>
>   Ron
>
>
>
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