Syslinux - Nov 2005 - authentication with usernames?

Hi

   I'm glad to see that pxelinux now has support for password 
authentication ;) Is it possible to extend that feature to use a 
username/password combination? Something like the menu.c32 loading a file 
that has uid/pw mappings and using them..

People (well, admins) tend to keep quiet about their own passwords better 
than a common password, so the feature would help here ;) (having a bunch 
of admins who have the right to install a machine)


t

On Thu, 3 Nov 2005, Timo Aaltonen wrote:
>
> 	Hi
>
>  I'm glad to see that pxelinux now has support for password
authentication
> ;) Is it possible to extend that feature to use a username/password 
> combination? Something like the menu.c32 loading a file that has uid/pw 
> mappings and using them..
As Mr. Ganapathy pointed out to me, the advanced menu has this feature. It 
took a while to configure complex.c the way I wanted, considering I can't 
code C, but now it works nicely ;) Indeed it would be nice to have code 
that reads the menu structure from the bootfile (?), but in practise the 
menu is pretty static, so once you've gone through configuring it you 
seldom need to touch it again (at least I don't ;)

thanks!

t