net-snmp-5.5-37 v3 users conf file

Hi,

We are using net-snmp-5.5-37 and facing issue in configuring v3 users file. So to create the v3 users we don't use net-snmp command, instead we create v3 users file from our application and place it as /var/lib/net-snmp/snmpd.conf. This file contains the createUser entries along with the engine id.

The issue we are facing is once we copy the snmpd.conf (inside /var/lib/net-snmp) and restart the snmpd daemon then net-snmp is overwriting our file with some other file, it looks like below:-

#
# net-snmp (or ucd-snmp) persistent data file.
#
############################################################################
# STOP STOP STOP STOP STOP STOP STOP STOP STOP
#
#          **** DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE ****
#
# STOP STOP STOP STOP STOP STOP STOP STOP STOP
############################################################################
#
# DO NOT STORE CONFIGURATION ENTRIES HERE.
# Please save normal configuration tokens for snmpd in SNMPCONFPATH/snmpd.conf.
# Only "createUser" tokens should be placed here by snmpd administrators.
# (Did I mention: do not edit this file?)
#

I am not sure if this the normal behaviour or do we need to do something in configuration to prevent this? Or we are doing something terribly wrong.

Thanks,
Pavan

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