Re: How do you generate a USM localized key?

2009-04-17 Thread Dave Shield
2009/4/16 Anthony Wright anth...@overnetdata.com: I'm trying to get USM authentication and encryption working on an SNMPv3  server, and don't want to store the password in the snmpd.conf file. What happens if you take the usmUser line from the persistent snmpd.conf file, and put that in the

Re: How do you generate a USM localized key?

2009-04-17 Thread Anthony Wright
I tried that and it worked, but it's very awkward to automate - the only way I could find to generate the usmUser record from a createUser record was to run snmpd, but since I use snmpd to monitor all my machines, I've already got an snmpd running on the machine and the two snmpds interfere with

Re: How do you generate a USM localized key?

2009-04-17 Thread Dave Shield
2009/4/17 Anthony Wright anth...@overnetdata.com: Since createUser explicitly offers the ability to use a localized... . key, I presumed there was a relatively simple way to generate them You can turn a password into a master key, using the routine 'generate_Ku'. This can then be

How do you generate a USM localized key?

2009-04-16 Thread Anthony Wright
I'm trying to get USM authentication and encryption working on an SNMPv3 server, and don't want to store the password in the snmpd.conf file. Due to the way my server works, the contents of the snmpd.conf generated by snmpd are destroyed at a reboot (it's a virtual machine which resets to initial