Linksys LGS308 User Manual page 38

• Authentication Password—If authentication is accomplished by either a MD5 or a
SHA password, enter the local user password in either Encrypted or Plaintext.
Local user passwords are compared to the local database, and can contain up to
32 ASCII characters.
• Privacy Method—Select one of the following options:
• Privacy Password—16 bytes are required (DES encryption key) if the DES privacy
method was selected. This field must be exactly 32 hexadecimal characters. The
Encrypted or Plaintext mode can be selected.
4. Click Apply to save the settings.
Communities
Access rights in SNMPv1 and SNMPv2 are managed by defining communities in the Communities
page. The community name is a type of shared password between the SNMP management station
and the device. It is used to authenticate the SNMP management station.
Communities are only defined in SNMPv1 and v2 because SNMPv3 works with users instead of
communities. The users belong to groups that have access rights assigned to them.
The Communities page associates communities with access rights, either directly (Basic mode) or
through groups (Advanced mode):
• Basic Mode—The access rights of a community can configure with Read Only, Read Write,
or SNMP Admin. In addition, you can restrict the access to the community to only certain
MIB objects by selecting a view (defined in the SNMP Views page).
o None—Privacy password is not encrypted.
o DES—Privacy password is encrypted according to the Data Encryption
Standard (DES).
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