net-snmp security conundrum

Brian Jones <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.net-snmp.user
Message-ID <CAABZye-hjLvRUyihqn-XrqF=PniSkK2NRQkADCzNEyQGtL-wTg@mail.gmail.com>
I am trying to write a GUI for net-snmp on a FreeBSD based appliance and I
am struggling with the security model.  The way I see it, I can
create/modify usmUsers in one of two ways.

1) via directly editing the static and persistent config files
2) via commands like snmpuser


If I chose method 1, then I need some way to associate the rouser/rwuser
line in the static config with the appropriate usmUser line in the
persistent config, and I can't seem to find a way to do that.

If I choose method 2, then I need to have an rwuser for use by the GUI whose
password can only be modified from localhost.  I suspect this might be
possible to do using views, but I sure haven't been able to figure it out
yet.


Thoughts, comments, opinions, please.

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