Thanks to Dave and Robert,
I am using SNMP v2c , so I cannot do this . I will give try in
SNMPV2/USM .
Thanks,
Pranesh
On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Dave Shield <[email protected]>wrote:
> 2009/2/5 Robert Story <[email protected]>:
> > On Tue, 3 Feb 2009 13:13:50 +0530 Pranesh wrote:
> > PK> I am running my agent as the subagent under the root user. If I
> am
> > PK> login as normal user , and do the snmpset operation , it is allowing
> to set
> > PK> the parameter.But my requirement says , it should only set the
> parameter if
> > PK> it is root user ???
> >
> > The snmp packet does not carry any user information, so this is
> impossible.
>
> That's not strictly true.
> SNMPv3/USM _does_ involve the idea of "users".
> (That's what the 'U' stands for!)
>
>
> However SNMP users and system users are two completely separate things.
> An SNMP user called "fred" is configured separately from a Unix account
> called
> "fred". They can (and probably should) have two different passwords, and
> could easily be used by two different people.
>
> As Robert says:
> > You should use SNMP access control, and not give read-write community/v3
> > access to non-root users.
>
> SNMP access control is distinct from Unix-style access control.
> Don't confuse the two.
>
> Dave
>
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