Re: Odd behaviour during unidirectional CHAP authentication

2008-08-27 Thread Nandkumar
Thanks Shyam. So in this case target replies with NONE as it has choosen NONE between CHAP and NONE. Here initiator is asking for authentication and Target is not ready for authentication. In this scenario authentication should fail. Right? To make authentication strict, initiator should only pas

RE: Odd behaviour during unidirectional CHAP authentication

2008-08-27 Thread Shyam_Iyer
Nandkumar wrote: > Here is what initiator and taget passes to each other while iscsi negotiation phase. Assuming CHAP is only enabled on initiator and not on target. > 1) Initiator pass "CHAP,NONE" as Authentication parameter. > 2) Target replies with "NONE". > 3) Both will settle on "NONE" as Auth

Odd behaviour during unidirectional CHAP authentication

2008-08-26 Thread Nandkumar
HI, During unidirectional CHAP configuration on RHEL5.2, I found following odd behaviour. "If initiator CHAP is enabled and Target CHAP is _not_ enabled , Authentication Passes". I looked at code, trace and RFC and here is my observation. Here is what initiator and taget passes to each other w