Re: net-snmp 5.8 password encryption

"Michael W. Lucas" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.net-snmp.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
The encrypted user is placed in the persistent data file.

You can remove this line from snmpd.conf after the user is created,
and use snmpusm to clone it for new accounts.

==ml


On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 05:31:09AM +0000, Uma Mohandoss via Net-snmp-users wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> Net-snmp 5.8, user creation does not encrypt password. Password stored in plain text under /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf.
> 
> Eg. (snippet from snmpd.conf)
> createUser    u1  SHA   watchThis123   AES watchThis123
> group COMMON usm u1
> 
> Need help/patch to encrypt password.
> 
> Thanks,
> Uma Mohandoss
> 
> 
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