[syslinux] ldap/kerberos auth for pxelinux-menu?

[H. Peter Anvin]

Timo Aaltonen wrote:
> 
>     Hi
> 
>   Has anyone thought how to make the pxelinux-menu use ldap or kerberos 
> for authentication? It would be cool because then it wouldn't be 
> necessary to maintain a separate passwd-file for netboot..
> 

Even unmodified RADIUS would be hard, since PXE only provides a UDP 
stack; it doesn't provide even a raw IP stack so one can implement TCP 
natively.

A UDP authentication daemon might be possible, though.

	-hpa