AIX SNMP Defaults (fwd)

From: Dave G. (dhgat_private)
Date: Thu Feb 17 2000 - 08:33:54 PST

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    > It appears that on the above releases of AIX, the SNMP daemon is enabled
    > by default and two community names are enabled with read/write
    > privileges.
    > The community names are "private" and "system", but are only allowed
    > from localhost connections. Nevertheless, a local user may install an
    > SNMP client, and modify sensitive variables.
    >
    
    Since SNMP is UDP based, it is possible that you can spoof snmp set
    requests provided that:
    
    1) There are no firewalls in between.
    2) snmpd doesnt have any code to detect which interface an SNMP packet
       came in on (not likely).
    
    
    >From your output, it looks like the system community might be limited to a
    certain set of variables that it can read/write.  (depending on what view
    name means)
    
    
    
    Dave G.
    
    
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