[ First - *please* don't mail me privately, without copying
any responses to the mailing list. I don't have the time
or inclination to offer private, unpaid, SNMP consultancy.
Keep discussions to the list, where others can both learn
and offer advice. Thanks. ]
> Hi, Dave. Yes, I have read that man page. I have read (right now)
> the README.snmpv3 file too.
>
> An observation: my UCD-SNMP agent was installed by means of a rpm
> file. Can you aswer these two questions?
>
> 1. In the README.snmpv3 file, "defAuthPassphrase new_passphrase"
> means the "new_passphrase" is the authentication password?
Yes
> 2. Why privacy is not enabled in binary distributions? How to use it?
I'm not sure offhand what the precise situation is - I'd need to search
through the mailing list archives to check. But my guess is that it may
be because privacy requires the use of OpenSSL, which includes strong
encryption.
This is (or at least was) potentially subject to export restrictions.
So it's somewhat easier (legally) to provide binaries that don't come
under this.
There may also be issues w.r.t. the licencing of OpenSSL. Just because
two packages are both "Open Source" doesn't mean that they necessarily have
the same licensing requirements. It's perfectly feasible to be able to
legally provide a source distribution that can be configured to use a
particular library, but not be able to distribute that same configuration
as a ready-compiled binary.
Both of those ring vague bells, but I'm not 100% sure which (if either)
applies here. I'm restoring the Cc: to the mailing list, so others
can chip in with more solid information.
Dave
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