[5078] in Athena Bugs
Re: vax 7.0E: snmp
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Coppeto)
Tue Jun 5 15:34:02 1990
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Cc: jtkohl@MIT.EDU, roden@MIT.EDU, jis@MIT.EDU, jon@MIT.EDU, tom@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 29 May 90 16:52:39 -0400.
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 90 15:33:24 EDT
From: Tom Coppeto <tom@MIT.EDU>
Pursuant to an agreement forged out last summer/fall between me
and NetServ and SysDev personnel, the SNMP agents on Athena machines
should be capable of returning the information I mentioned above. In
particular, the intent was to be able to remotely query a given host to
verify whether the machine's /etc/srvtab had been updated to have the
proper realm name in it. This information is currently unavailable via
the SNMP agent /etc/snmpd.
After having this topic discussed over the past week, the solution to this
problem is not to have snmp deal with the diving into srvtabs. Furthermore,
the existing support for key name & version information is to be removed to
prevent potential security problems in the future.
- Tom
