Re: net-snmp v5.5 agent authenticationFailure for noAuthNoPriv V3 access

Dave Shield <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.net-snmp.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 19 August 2010 23:29, Ron Rader <[email protected]> wrote:
>  So these rouser statements allow specification of a MINIMUM security
> level, which defaults to "auth."

Correct.
You need a line such as

    rouser xxxuser noauth

to allow noAuthNoPriv requests.


>  No problem.  I'll leave as-is and won't bother changing anything until
> someone complains.  Not quite sure why they'd want to use noAuthNoPriv
> anyway, but it's good to test in any case.

The main advantage of SNMPv3 over SNMPv2c is the addition of
security.   So using noauth has all the additional complexity of SNMPv3,
without actually taking advantage of the main advantage!

Dave

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