Re: Chrooting an SNMP AgentX application

2008-11-16 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO En cette matinée pluvieuse du dimanche 16 novembre 2008, vers 10:16, je disais: [privilege separation] >> Would it be possible to write a custom transport which inherits and >> replaces Unix one with a netsnmp_unix_transport() function that will >> handle correctly the opening of th

Re: Chrooting an SNMP AgentX application

2008-11-16 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO En ce début d'après-midi nuageux du samedi 15 novembre 2008, vers 14:15, je disais: > I am writing some kind of application (https://trac.luffy.cx/lldpd) that > behaves like an AgentX using NetSNMP API. I would like to do some > privilege separation and chrooting. However, NetSNMP

Chrooting an SNMP AgentX application

2008-11-15 Thread Vincent Bernat
Hi! I am writing some kind of application (https://trac.luffy.cx/lldpd) that behaves like an AgentX using NetSNMP API. I would like to do some privilege separation and chrooting. However, NetSNMP API do a lot of things that makes the task a bit difficult: - It tries to read a lot of