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

["Glen Zorn \(gwz\)" <gwz at cisco.com>]

Fleischman, Eric <> supposedly scribbled:

> This discussion appears to me to have been coupling authentication
> with authorization. If we permit the authentication of an "anonymous"
> entity, then the question of whether or not that entity is authorized
> to do anything useful is a policy issue. 

The term "authentication" doesn't seem to apply to anonymous entities.

Hope this helps,

~gwz

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  listening to John Coltrane? -- Henry Gabriel

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