[syslinux] pxe password protect option

Jerry Nelson jerry.nelson at xilinx.com
Thu May 17 13:26:15 PDT 2007


H. Peter,   I tried 3.50-pre10 as well, but same thing?
It's like this option is being totally ignored - I must have something
Wrong or missing maybe?  It should be a pretty simple thing of these
3 files in /tftpboot and a config file /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg - not much
else involved correct?

Jerry

-----Original Message-----
From: H. Peter Anvin [mailto:hpa at zytor.com] 
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 10:10 AM
To: Jerry Nelson
Cc: For discussion of SYSLINUX and tftp-hpa; coldium at asiec.ru
Subject: Re: [syslinux] pxe password protect option

Jerry Nelson wrote:
> I tried this again with pxelinux.0 version 3.31 & 3.36 and I
> Do have "MENU PASSWD" after the LABEL's I'm testing.
> 
> Every time, prompt or no prompt, timeout or no timeout, this boots
> straight into the kernel and never prompts me for a password?
> 
> IS there anything else I can do or test? - the -vv options for DHCP
> Doesn't really help me debug anything.

That is really bizarre.

Are you sure you have updated the menu.c32/vesamenu.c32 module to match
pxelinux.0?  (I'm asking because sometimes we have people reporting bugs
which turn out to be version mismatches.)

The other thing to do is to add debugging messages to the source code
(com32/modules/menumain.c) and try to figure out why it doesn't display
the password input box.

I'm at a loss, because I can't reproduce your failure.  Just to be
paranoid, does 3.50-pre10 also fail for you?

	-hpa









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