Question on passing username and password credentials through PLDM

[Jayashankar Padath]

Okay I was basically mentioning about the communication between the host
and the BMC. So in reality, a graphics adapter would be assigned to a
partition, where PFW (Platform firmware) can display the SMS ( System
Management Services) menus for some specific operations. Since PFW does not
have the authentication mechanism, it's done by BMC with the help of PAM
module according to the specific role of the user.

Thanks and Best Regards,
Jayashankar

On Wed, Jan 3, 2024 at 5:44 PM Patrick Williams <patrick at stwcx.xyz> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 03, 2024 at 03:18:41PM +0530, Jayashankar Padath wrote:
> > Hello Patrick,
> >
> > Thanks for your suggestion. From the host side they wanted  to attach a
> > graphics adapter so that some of the system management service operations
> > could be carried out.
>
> I'm not understanding the relationship between a graphics adapter on the
> host and authentication on the BMC over PLDM.
>
> Are you aware that the Aspeed chip already has a graphics engine that
> can be connected to the host?  OpenBMC already supports exposing that
> graphics adapter as a KVM over the webui.
>
> If you're suggesting a graphics adapter that the BMC itself uses, there
> is currently no support for doing that.
>
> > As you suggested we would consider the way, other external interface
> > programs like bmcweb which support similar functionalities.
> >
> > Thanks and Best Regards,
> > Jayashankar
> >
>
> --
> Patrick Williams
>
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