On Thu, 2005-06-23 at 12:11, Thomas Anders wrote:
> Dave Shield wrote:
> > The only entry I'm not comfortable about is "setserialno".
> > I'd suggest that this entry is omitted (both here, and from
> > the -H output).
> 
> I'd prefer to see a dedicated section on persistent file tokens pointing 
> out (strongly, as in the file itself) that only createUser is supposed 
> to be set by the admin, but still documenting the purpose of all the 
> others. Objections?

That makes sense.
I'm still tempted to make a stronger distinction between 
"internal" configuration directives, and those intended for
use by network administrators.

How about having a separate man page for these persistence directives?
That could be slathered with dire warnings about not actually using
these entries unless you're *certain* about what you're doing, and
don't come crying to us when it doesn't do what you expected....

The 'snmpd.conf(5)' man page could then have a section about the
persistent config file, documenting "createUser" there and pointing
to this separate man page for the rest of the entries.

How does that sound?

Dave



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