[Pysnmp-dev] SNMP-based creation of users

[Brian K. <kyc...@sp...>]

Ilya,

I see that you have "Disallow SNMP access to USM objects" on your TODO 
list. My organization will be using these objects to create new users 
remotely. If your TODO item means just that you will change the access 
level of the objects in SNMP-USER-BASED-SM-MIB to "noaccess", that's 
fine, because we can easily change the access levels.  If it means 
something more than that, hopefully you'll reconsider.  I was also 
hoping you'd implement the algorithm that creates the encryption and 
authentication keys from the usmUserAuthKeyChange and 
usmUserPrivKeyChange values.

I have written a patch for SNMP-USER-BASED-SM-MIB.py that gives the 
usmUserSecurityName object the value of usmUserName whenever the  is 
changed. The patch is on the website. Please consider incorporating it; 
it will save your newer users some hassle should they try to create 
users remotely.

Brian