SNMPv3 access with wrong password

Andrejs Bogdanovs <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.net-snmp.user
Message-ID <CANRtcZ30nPnFjFhUiGZwipU2bXvGpcpoO6E61Jeop=ZyfK0SBQ@mail.gmail.com>
Greetings, net-snmp folks!
Sorry, if this has been discussed before or is mentioned in the docs -
haven't found info about this issue (only about the minimal length of
the passwords).

I installed net-snmp 5.7.3 on Ubuntu Linux 16.04.3 LTS (x86_64).

I created SNMPv3 user using net-snmp-config:

net-snmp-config --create-snmpv3-user -a "aaaaaaaaa" myuser3

I tried to access sysDescr OID:

Valid password:
snmpwalk -v 3 -u myuser3 -l authNoPriv -a MD5 -A "aaaaaaaaa" -mALL -M
/home/user/net-snmp/mibs localhost sysDescr
SNMPv2-MIB::sysDescr.0 = STRING: Linux ubuntu-pc 4.4.0-72-generic
#93-Ubuntu SMP Fri Mar 31 14:07:41 UTC 2017 x86_64

Invalid ones:
snmpwalk -v 3 -u myuser3 -l authNoPriv -a MD5 -A "aaaaaaaa" -mALL -M
/home/user/net-snmp/mibs localhost sysDescr
SNMPv2-MIB::sysDescr.0 = STRING: Linux ubuntu-pc 4.4.0-72-generic
#93-Ubuntu SMP Fri Mar 31 14:07:41 UTC 2017 x86_64

snmpwalk -v 3 -u myuser3 -l authNoPriv -a MD5 -A "aaaaaaadddaa" -mALL
-M /home/user/net-snmp/mibs localhost sysDescr
snmpwalk: Authentication failure (incorrect password, community or
key) (Sub-id not found: (top) -> sysDescr)

snmpwalk -v 3 -u myuser3 -l authNoPriv -a MD5 -A "aaaaaaaaaaaa" -mALL
-M /home/user/net-snmp/mibs localhost sysDescr
SNMPv2-MIB::sysDescr.0 = STRING: Linux ubuntu-pc 4.4.0-72-generic
#93-Ubuntu SMP Fri Mar 31 14:07:41 UTC 2017 x86_64

Why have requests succeeded in case of "aaaaaaaa" and "aaaaaaaaaaaa"?


After that I created another user "myuser2" with password "aaaaaaaa"
and checked /var/lib/snmp/snmpd.conf
usmUser 1 3 0x80001f88801017fc5c779da55800000000 "myuser2" "myuser2"
NULL .1.3.6.1.6.3.10.1.1.2 0x706e8678f90dd89addf77ed13b2e7093
.1.3.6.1.6.3.10.1.2.2 0x706e8678f90dd89addf77ed13b2e7093 0x
usmUser 1 3 0x80001f88801017fc5c779da55800000000 "myuser3" "myuser3"
NULL .1.3.6.1.6.3.10.1.1.2 0x706e8678f90dd89addf77ed13b2e7093
.1.3.6.1.6.3.10.1.2.2 0x706e8678f90dd89addf77ed13b2e7093 0x

Seems, that their hashes are same. Is it as intended?

Thank you for your help!

Best wishes,
Andrejs

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