On 23 February 2012 17:06, Ravi Kumar <[email protected]> wrote: > why can not we keep snmpv3 users in non persistent snmpd.conf ?
You can. It's perfectly possible to set up SNMPv3 users in the "normal" snmpd.conf file. (I'll often do this with temporary config files, while debugging assorted problems or developing new code) But the problem with doing this is that the 'createUser' line includes the password(s) for that user. So anyone looking at that file will be able to see these passwords. The reason for putting the createUser line in the *persistent* snmpd.conf file, is that this line will automatically be replaced by an equivalent "usmUser" line, which does _not_ list the plain text passwords. Dave ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try before you buy = See our experts in action! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 _______________________________________________ Net-snmp-coders mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/net-snmp-coders
