Re: [ECOS] SNMP authentication problem

[Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc dot com>]

Alperen Coskun wrote:
> Thanks for your response,
>
> I think, the main problem is my ECOS snmp agent doesn't read the lines from snmd.conf file. (or reads but doesn't use it)
> Because, it should at least call "vacm_parse_security" or "vacm_parse_group" functions to register the user. but, it doesn't. 
> Or, i'm still missing some points.
>
> May be there are some patches i didn't use. Can it be the problem? 

Where did you expect it to "read" this file from?  This is an _embedded_ system, no?

> ----------------------------------------
> > Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:41:20 +0200
> > From: andrew@lunn.ch
> > To: a_a_coskunoc@hotmail.com
> > CC: ecos-discuss@ecos.sourceware.org
> > Subject: Re: [ECOS] SNMP authentication problem
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 03:22:48PM +0300, Alperen Coskun wrote:
> > > I know its place, but I asked as the basic of SNMP, when I entered lines below to /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf file:
> > >
> > > createUser username MD5  "password"
> > > rwuser username auth
> > >
> > > it should create a user "username" with password "password" and encrypt&cypt the coming-coming packets according to MD5.  But, neither it creates a user in usm nor it encrypts&cypts the packets. The thing I want to learn is why it doesn't do it. When I aim to get any parameter from agent, agent says there isn't any user recorded. Am i doing sth wrong? 
> > I think i once did use the snmpd.conf file, but i don't remember if we
> > put users in it. I did test create using dynamically using the tests
> > shown on
> >
> > http://ecos.sourceware.org/docs-latest/ref/net-snmp-test-cases.html
> >
> > Do these tests work for you? I you might need to enable some of the
> > features in tests/snmpping.c
> >
> >     Andrew


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