need help manage users on server side

Hi

 

I know of 2 ways to manage users in snmp (add, delete, change password).

1)      nmpusm + snmpvacm

2)      manually edit snmpd.conf file

 

I have security issues with both ways (on server side):

1)      I am planning to call these applications from server code, using
system call.

Each application call need to contain user+password of the executing
user. Therefore I need to hold somewhere in my code the name and
password of a user with such permissions, and they need to be uncrypted.

2)      When I manually add "createUser" line to snmpd.conf in persist
directory- I add it un-ecrypted and only after restarting the demon the
line are edited by the snmpd. Since I user the SIGHUB signal to notify
the demon to re-read config files, the passwords stays unencrypted for a
while.

 

Is there a better way to solve this issue?

 

 

Best Regards,

 

Naama Bar Menachem

SW Eng.

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