[AGENT++] agent++ help

[Jochen Katz]

Hi,

> However one small question. If i have stored passwords in already Md5
> format (reading it typically from a database) ,  then could it work with
> existing API?

please be more precise, when talking about security. If some snmp entity
produced from password and engine id some localized authentication keys
using HMAC-MD5 algorithm and stored these keys into the database, then
you can pass these keys to the USM::add_localized_user() function.

If you have just some hashed passwords (like in /etc/shadow on unix like
systems), you're lost, as SNMPv3 API needs passwords as input.

Regards,
  Jochen