Re: agent doesn't respond to blank password fields during snmpv3 access...

[Wes H. <har...@us...>]

>>>>> On Wed, 1 May 2002 18:35:03 -0400, Anurag Bhatia <An...@am...> said:

Anurag> Has this issue ever come across and dealt in latest releases??

Ok, I've been meaning to look into this but I've simply not had the
time yet.

The thing is that blank passwords are illegal.  They must be at least
8 characters long, according to the spec.  Now, secondly the protocol
itself doesn't use passwords in the first place.  It uses keys (which
can be derived from passwords).  So the whole problem is a bit
confusing to me.  It sounds like a really strange. problem with the
manager that you're using.  So, to give me some more data to look at,
can you do the following: run snmpd with the "-d -Dusm" flags and
generate one request to it using your "blank" password and send the
results to the list.  The packet dumps and usm debugging output should
help explain some things to me.

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Wes Hardaker
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