Setting up authentication for Solaris hosts

You can set up authentication on a Solaris host.

About this task

The Storwize® V3700 system supports two Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol (CHAP) methods:
  • One-way CHAP authentication, in which the Storwize V3700 system authenticates the host iSCSI initiator.
  • Two-way CHAP authentication, in which both the Storwize V3700 system and the initiator authenticate each other.

Procedure

You can enable or disable authentication by using the following methods:
  • One-way authentication
    • iscsiadm modify initiator-node –authentication <CHAP/none>
    • iscsiadm modify initiator-node —CHAP-secret
  • Two-way authentication
    • iscsiadm modify target-param –authentication <CHAP/none>
    • iscsiadm modify target-param —bi-directional-authentication <enable/disable>CHAP-secret
    • iscsiadm modify target-param —CHAP-secret
Note: The CHAP secret is a minimum of 12 characters and a maximum of 16 characters.

For more information about setting up authentication, see the documentation for your host system.