Re: v3 traps and plain text password

On 3 March 2011 01:49, Prakash Masanagi <[email protected]> wrote:
> If I add the following line in snmpd.conf, then snmpd sends v3 trap with
> that username properly.
>     trapsess -v3 -u netadmin -l authNoPriv -a MD5 -A netadminpassword 10.4.120.141

> But I do not want to expose the password in plain text like this in the
> config file.
> Is there any other way of configuring without exposing the passwords like this.

Determine the engineID of the destination system (10.4.120.141),
then add a line

    createUser -e 0x010203040506 netAdmin MD5 netadminpassword DES

to the persistent snmpd.conf file
   (where 0x010203040506 is replaced by the appropriate engineID).
When you restart the agent, this will be replaced by an equivalent usmUser line,
with a localized authentication key.

Dave

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