Re: Password protect the gPXE CLI

Michael Brown <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.etherboot.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Friday 31 July 2009 17:28:57 Wagnell, Joseph M (IS) wrote:
> I was wondering if it was possible to password protect the CLI access to
> gPXE. Or if that's not possible, could I remove access to the CLI
> altogether. I am currently using gPXE to sanboot multiple computers/OS's
> (with DHCP) and security wants to ensure that a user cannot manually
> assign an IP and boot from a different LUN. Any other
> thoughts/suggestions would be welcome.

If you change BANNER_TIMEOUT in config/general.h from 20 down to 0, then you 
will never see a prompt to enter the CLI.  This will also disable the 
POST-time prompt to enter the CLI, if you are building gPXE into ROM.

Michael

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