[gPXE-devel] [gPXE] Fwd: Re:Re: why?username and password is right , but can't boot?

[Marty Connor]

Michael Brown wrote on 3/17/10 6:51 AM:
> On Wednesday 17 Mar 2010 10:08:00 Kevin Tran wrote:
>> Current code only handles challenge response that is string of hex numbers
>>   that started with either “0x”.  The challenge sent back by this target is
>>   in base64 format.  I think we need to add base64 (per RFC 3720) format
>>   support  in order to solve this problem.
>
> Exactly what I was going to say.  gPXE does not currently support base64-
> encoded CHAP challenges (or responses).
>
> We have base64 encoding support in core/base64.c, but no decoding support.
>
> Someone will need to add base64_decode() base64_decoded_len() functions, and
> modify iscsi.c to be able to use them; this is probably best done by
> abstracting out the two places that currently process large hex strings into a
> single iscsi_decode_large_binary() function.
> Michael

Cool. Thanks for outlining a solution.

Sounds like a relatively easy change.  Anyone want to take a crack at 
it?  I think you will definitely have a willing tester for your work ;-)

/ Marty /