[Bug #133621] net-snmp ignores new authentication password

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Bug #133621, was updated on 2001-Feb-22 08:26
Here is a current snapshot of the bug.

Project: net-snmp
Category: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Bug Group: None
Priority: 5
Submitted by: navkal
Assigned to : nobody
Summary: net-snmp ignores new authentication password

Details: I am implementing an element manager that allows the user to
change the SNMPv3 authentication password on a target device.

After successfully changing the password on the device, the application
closes the existing session, reopens it with the new password, and makes a
GET request.  However, the library continues to use the old password,
resulting in an authentication failure.

As far as I can see under my debugger, the new SNMP session is correctly
initialized with the new password.  I wonder whether the underlying OpenSSL
library is remembering the old password and ignoring the new one.

Can you suggest a workaround for this problem which I can use until a fix
is available?  Thank you.

Follow-Ups:

Date: 2001-Feb-23 11:24
By: nobody

Comment:
I have solved my problem.  I guess I would call it a user error rather than
a bug.

I discovered that net-snmp actually uses the authentication key from the
user structure rather than the SNMP session.  Thus, opening a new SNMP
session with the new password did not help when the user structure
continued to store the old password.

I have solved the problem by updating the authentication key in the user
structure as well.

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