I also add rouser and rwuser configuration lines accordingly.

Through my interactive CLI, I will be querying the user to enter the
details like username, groupname,
Whether wants to have authentication enabled, if so the authphrase,
similarly the privacy etc.
Once I have all these details, I will be writing these details into
snmpd.conf and will be sending a 
SIGHUP signal to re-read the snmpd.conf.

The problem for me here is, before storing the snmpv3 users into the
snmpd.conf, I will be storing that
Info in a persistant file. So whenever my switch is restarted,
everytime, the entries from this persistant file is
Copied into the snmpd.conf. so if we add snmpv3 users from external
managers, those user entries might be lost because
When the switch comes up it rewrites the info. From my persistant file.


Thanks & Regards,
 
Bharath Kumar

-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Anders [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 8:21 PM
To: Bharath Yadlapalli (WT01 - Computing Systems & Storage)
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Preventing users from writing into SnmoUsmMib and
SnmpVacmMib

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Is there any mechanism to prevent users from writing to the snmpUsmMIB
and the snmpVacmMIB. These are handled by snmpd so it may take some
patch to that code to accomplish that. 
> The scenario is I have my own CLI interface to create the snmpv3
users, all it does is writing the user info into snmpd.conf.
> So in order to allow only my CLI to create the snmpV3 users, I want to
restrict other EMS or NMS from doing that or even preventing the snmpusm
tool from doing that.

What exactly is your CLI writing into snmpd.conf? Just *creating* users
(by means of createUser/usmUser lines) will not add access control
settings for them, so they wouldn't be allowed to do anything by
default. But you haven't said anything about your overall configuration
yet, unfortunately.


+Thomas

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Thomas Anders (thomas.anders at blue-cable.de)

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