SNMP and passwords

[redloh]

I was wondering, if service password encryption is set, can the passwords of the router still be obtained through SNMP RO access? I'm trying to give my customer a simple solution to view the config, but I obviously don't want them to be able to have access to the passwords. Any ideas?

[dan.richter]

I tried this with the SolarWinds 2000 Pro Download Config utility. The SNMP RO string wouldn't even allow the download to be performed, much less reveal contents.

[rmushtaq]

In order to reterieve the config via SNMP, you must use the RW strings. Can't do it only with the RO strings.

[nex]

Perhaps you could write a script that would tail a mail spool for requests, kick off a script to retrieve the configuration, do some scrubbing, and mail them the results.