Re: [Isms] #1: is it important to support anonymous user accesstoSNMP?

[Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder at iu-bremen.de>]

On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 09:28:59AM -0400, David B Harrington wrote:

> This approach is already being used by NMS systems today. I don't see
> why it would be impractical.

In all fairness, NMS systems also rely on community "public" for a
great deal of their discovery. So even big commercial NMS systems
sometimes like to talk to boxes who are not aware of the NMS identity.

Note that I am not necessarily saying ISMS has to support
authenticated anonymous access - perhaps community "public" is good
enough, even though it is not authenticated.

In fact, does authenticated anonymous access not boil down to "I
configure a well-known (typically read-only) user identity with a
secret that everybody knows about"? If yes, then I don't think ISMS
has to do something special.

/js

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Juergen Schoenwaelder		    International University Bremen
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