SNMP community string starting w/special a prob on Sol 8?

From: Bartram, Chris (Contractor) (Chris.Bartram_at_usmint.treas.gov)
Date: 03/29/05

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Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 16:33:43 -0500

    Our standard community strings start with a special character. It's been ok
    so far on every other platform we've used... But on Sol 8 (on an e15k domain
    fwiw) trying to enter the read/write-trap-community string in snmpdx.acl
    generates

    Mar 29 13:31:56 solaris /usr/lib/snmp/snmpdx: [ID 702911 daemon.error]
    syntax error in at line 20: the token < is not valid
    Mar 29 15:15:10 solaris /usr/lib/snmp/snmpdx: [ID 702911 daemon.error]
    syntax error in at line 20: the token $ is not valid

    (for variations of the string starting with a "<" and a "$" respectively.)

    I determined the "in at line 20" is referring to the snmpdx.acl file's line
    20. Trying to 'quote' or "quote" the strings yielded:

    Mar 29 15:16:33 coindev2 /usr/lib/snmp/snmpdx: [ID 702911 daemon.error]
    syntax error at line 20: "
    Mar 29 14:30:56 coindev2 /usr/lib/snmp/snmpdx: [ID 702911 daemon.error]
    syntax error in at line 20: the token ' is not valid

    Don't seem to get complaints about the snmpd.conf file, though maybe it's
    not getting that far...

    relevant portions of the snmpdx.acl are:

    acl = {
            {
                    communities = %string1, %string2 <--- this is "line 20"
    in the snmpdx.acl file
                    access = read-write
                    managers = *
            }
    }

    communities = {
    %string1 read-only
    %string2 read-write
    }

    trap-community = %string1

    trap-recipients =
    {
    host1,host2
    }

    Is is a bug? or is there a secret-handshake escape character I can use to
    get it to accept a string starting with a special character? (I tried "\" as
    a prefix as well.. no joy)

    And don't get me started on the idjit that picked those strings in the first
    place! ;-)

    TIA - will summarize,
     -Chris Bartram
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