Hi Wes Hardaker, Thank you for information.
Regards, Pushpa.T On Sat, Sep 16, 2023 at 3:06 AM Wes Hardaker <harda...@users.sourceforge.net> wrote: > Pushpa Thimmaiah <pushpa.thimma...@gmail.com> writes: > > > I am looking for method to save username and community in encrypted > > format in / etc/snmp/snmpd.conf. Could you please let me know it can > > be done? > > Hi Pushpa, > > No it can't be done and there isn't really a way to properly do it in > the first place, as the SNMPv3 protocol specification does not encrypt > the username when transmitted over the network. It was never intended > to be a secret (unlike the security keys/passphrases which very much > are). > > Your only other option is to use a different security backend transport > than USM (TLS, SSH, etc which aren't as widely supported unfortunately). > > -- > Wes Hardaker > Please mail all replies to net-snmp-coders@lists.sourceforge.net >
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