Hi Jay Thanks a lot for your help , I am now able to do the authentication from serial access for GRUB . Sorry for the delay in replying though , my machine had crashed . I want one more suggestion from you , how to configure grub so that it does not send me this message on the serial terminal :: Press any key to continue ... {This message comes 10-12 times and I have to press the key to go to the serial console}. My GRUB conf file looks like this :: ******* title SERIAL TEST serial --unit=0 --speed=9600 --stop=1 terminal --timeout=10 serial console password --md5 kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-20.8 ro root=LABEL=/ console=tty0 console=ttyS0,9600n8 ****** Regards, Karan Saberwal -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list