Re: Regarding additional user creation

>>>>> On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 22:27:32 +0530, "Kadirvelu, Kannan (Kanna)" <kkannan@lucent.com> said:

Kannan> We are using net-snmp for our product. We would like to
Kannan> create a new user on the fly with a different auth and priv
Kannan> values than the one which is created by default.

the SNMP specifications require:

1) new users created remotely are cloned from existing users.
2) the auth/priv algorithms from the cloned user must not change. IE,
if the original user had md5 as the auth algorithm then the new
user will have to use that.
3) the RFCs recommend 1 pre-configured template user per auth/priv
algorithm pair to overcome this.

IE, it's not a limitation of net-snmp. It's required by the specs.
Kannan> We are not able to do this. We are not able to understand why
Kannan> the creation of new user with different auth and priv should
Kannan> fail ?

Kannan> We understand that we can create all possible users before starting snmpd.

Kannan> However the problem we are facing is, a remote snmp manager will contact the
Kannan> agent with the default (mutually agreed) snmpv3 user and then will try to
Kannan> create a user of its choice. This is not possible and hence we are facing
Kannan> this issue. We don't want to create all possible combinations and then
Kannan> communicate this snmpv3 user info to the snmp manager.

Kannan> Please advice how to proceed.

Kannan> Regards,
Kannan> Kannan.K.

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