> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> Behalf Of Isaac Eliassi
> Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2008 3:05 AM
> I am creating an agent and I noticed that when I run it as
> root everything seems to be ok,
>
> When I execute it as another user I get the following error :
>
> Error opening specified endpoint ""
>
> Server Exiting with code 1
>
> The execution command are the same
>
> /usr/local/sbin/snmpd -c /usr/local/share/snmp/snmpd.conf -C -Lf 1.txt
>
> Is it because the default UDP port is 161 ? how can I run it
> as a user which is not a superuser?
Unixen will not permit a port <4096 to be opened by a uid other than 0.
If you are on a unix family host, then you may run snmpd as non-root, but
*must* use a port number >=4096. I typically use port numbers of the form
XX1161/XX162, e.g. 11161/11162.
HTH,
Mike
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