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Description of problem:

The default configuration is not conforming to best practices. The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) v1.2 published by the Defense Information Systems Agency recommends the changes in the attached patch.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/6Server/en/os/SRPMS/net-snmp-5.5-44.el6_4.1.src.rpm

How reproducible:

Always

Steps to Reproduce:

perform a yum install

Actual results:

root@test /tmp/setup
# grep 'v1\|v2c\|com2sec' /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf | grep -v '^#'
com2sec notConfigUser  default       public
group   notConfigGroup v1           notConfigUser
group   notConfigGroup v2c           notConfigUser

Expected results:

# grep 'v1\|v2c\|com2sec' /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf | grep -v '^#'

There should be no output.

Additional info:

see: http://iase.disa.mil/stigs/os/unix/red_hat.html

Created attachment 758937 [details]
srcrpm patch (specfile/sources)

Created attachment 758938 [details]
srcrpm

Created attachment 758939 [details]
srcrpm patch (specfile/sources)

Created attachment 758940 [details]
srcrpm

Thanks for the bug report. While I agree that the default snmpd.conf file is suboptimal, changing it in the middle of RHEL6 lifetime is dangerous. Please keep in mind that bugzilla is not a support tool or means of accessing support. Please contact Red Hat support at access.redhat.com, where this change can be properly tracked and reviewed.

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