Yeah, great. Parsing problem was the right hint. The entry made by the create-user command was:
createUser nagios AuNg6ud4thaiK8EJ "MD5" AuNg6ud4thaiK8EJ DES But the algorithm has to be in front of the password: createUser nagios "MD5" AuNg6ud4thaiK8EJ DES AuNg6ud4thaiK8EJ Then, after restarting the daemon, everything works like expected. Thanks a lot for your help. I think on my own, I never would have seen this error (I'm not so experienced with netsnmp till now) Regards. Nils On 06.08.2010 15:12, Ron Rader wrote: > Nils: > > >> adding the following line to /var/lib/net-snmp/snmpd.conf: >> createUser nagios AuNg6ud4thaiK8EJ "MD5" AuNg6ud4thaiK8EJ DES >> adding the following line to /usr/share/snmp/snmpd.conf: >> rouser nagios >> > OK, now what ends up in your snmpd log file after you restart the > agent? You must restart snmpd before you can use any new createUser > lines. Also note that your persistent createUser lines in > /var/lib/net-snmp/snmpd.conf will change to more cryptic usmUser lines > after they're processed by the agent. > > >> the password I've set is actually 16 chars long, just didn't want to >> write it here >> > That's fair. > > >>>> Logfile says: >>>> >>>> >>>>> /var/lib/net-snmp/snmpd.conf: line 35: Error: Unknown >>>>> > authentication > >>>> protocol >>>> >>>> line 35 is >>>> >>>> >>>>> oldEngineID 0x80001f8880b7ecfe285bdf654300000000 >>>>> > I suspect the line number weirdness might have something to do with > the createUser -> usmUser transformation. I am also a bit mystified as > to why the script used "MD5" as the authentication protocol; as far as I > know this datum should not be double quoted but should read MD5. Notice > how the encryption selection is not quoted (DES)? > > It might be useful to add your own createUser lines by hand to > experiment. > > >>> Any encryption requires that your SUSE platform has the OpenSSL >>> libraries installed >>> > >> On the system is openssl 0.9.7e , openssl-32bit 9.3 and openssl-devel >> 0.9.7e installed. >> > That's good. You didn't seem to get snmpd errors complaining about > invalid encryption selections, which are expected when the agent doesn't > have access to OpenSSL. > > I think you're suffering from some sort of parsing problem between > net-snmp-config and snmpd. > > Ron > > > > The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential > and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the > intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this > message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any > dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly > prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify > us immediately by replying to the message and deleting all copies. Thank you. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Net-snmp-users mailing list Net-snmp-users@lists.sourceforge.net Please see the following page to unsubscribe or change other options: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/net-snmp-users
