That was it.
I was under the impression that either an 'rwuser' or 'authuser' entry was 
required as a counterpart to the user entry in /var/lib/snmp/snmpd.conf. I 
didn't consider that 'authgroup' fulfilled that need.

Thank you!

On 9/13/12 8:54 PM, Bill Fenner wrote:
> Joe,
>
> Have you tried it without the "authuser" line for Joe? I think the authuser 
> line is specifically giving Joe read,write with no views specified. Assigning 
> Joe to a group and then assigning access to the group should suffice.
>
>    Bill
>
>
> On Sep 12, 2012, at 4:52 PM, Joe Lorenz <joe.lor...@plexxi.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm trying to set up a configuration included v3 users, defined views, and 
>> named
>> groups that associate users to views. Below is the relevant portion of my
>> snmpd.conf file. (NOTE - I have the v3 users working after using
>> net-snmp-create-v3-user; my issue is the scoping of the set of returned OIDs 
>> to
>> that defined by the intended view.) I'm using Net-SNMP v5.7.1.
>>
>> -------------
>> view fooview included system
>> view fooview included ifXTable
>>
>> rwuser matt auth -V fooview
>>
>> authuser read,write joe
>> #rwuser joe
>>
>> group foogroup usm joe
>>
>> authgroup read,write foogroup auth -V fooview
>> #authaccess read,write foogroup fooview
>> #access foogroup "" usm auth exact fooview fooview none
>> -------------
>>
>> You will see from the commented lines some other attempts I have made. The 
>> user
>> "matt" is set up with the older-school method of associating the user 
>> directly
>> to the named view - *that works*. Walks by that user return the intended 
>> subset
>> of objects.
>> I want the user "joe" to be added to a group "foogroup" which is then 
>> associated
>> with the named view "fooview". This isn't working as I expect, so my guess is
>> that my expectations are incorrect somehow. Walks by user "joe" return the
>> entire MIB the agent serves.
>>
>> Any hints are hugely appreciated - many thanks.
>>
>>     -Joe
>>
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