[Sunhelp] SNMP Security Problem

[Ian]

On Wed, 1 Nov 2000 10:08:11 -0600, Ben Ricker wrote:

>snmp            161/udp                         # Simple Net Mgmt Proto
>
>Here is the security warning:
>
>SNMP Agent responded as expected with community name: public
>SNMP Agent responded as expected with community name: admin
>
>Any ideas on this?

I expect it's just telling you that your SNMP communities are using
very common names, public being read-only and admin being the
read-write community. You can (and should) change this in
/etc/snmp/snmpd.conf, or disable snmp entirely if you don't plan on
using it. 

-Ian
-Ian

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