Thanks Dave.
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 4:50 AM, Dave Shield <[email protected]>wrote:
> 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
>
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