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List:       freeipmi-users
Subject:    Re: [Freeipmi-users] What is the FreeIPMI command to set IPMI username and password?
From:       Al Chu via Freeipmi-users <freeipmi-users () gnu ! org>
Date:       2023-09-04 13:54:57
Message-ID: 15fdd61f-f58f-b880-d85f-76fa1354000e () llnl ! gov
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Hi Ole,

There is no equivalent to the ipmitool commands below.  To config user2 
via ipmi-config, you can do something like:

ipmi-config --checkout --section=User2 > my.conf
<edit my.conf>
ipmi-config --commit --filename=my.conf

Al

On 9/3/23 23:28, Ole Holm Nielsen wrote:
> Hi Al,
>
> Thanks for the pointer to the ipmi-config.conf(5) man-page. Probably 
> the config section for Section User2 is the relevant one for my simple 
> question.
>
> But I still cannot identify any Freeipmi command to perform an in-band 
> setting of username and password for the initial setup of remote login 
> to the BMC, corresponding to the ipmitool commands listed below.  Can 
> you help me with a command example?
>
> Thanks,
> Ole
>
> On 9/2/23 20:42, Al Chu wrote:
>> The manpage you are looking for is ipmi-config.conf(5).  I suppose I 
>> need a better pointer to it in the ipmi-config(1) manpage.
>>
>> On 9/2/23 08:50, Ole Holm Nielsen via Freeipmi-users wrote:
>>> I'm wondering what may be the FreeIPMI command to configure a 
>>> server's IPMI username (say, root) and password for a (vendor 
>>> specific) user number?
>>>
>>> I'm guessing that the ipmi-config command could do the job, but the 
>>> manual page doesn't seem to cover this simple task?
>>>
>>> With Ipmitool I would use these commands:
>>>
>>> ipmitool user set name $userno $IPMI_USER
>>> ipmitool user set password $userno $IPMI_PASSWORD

-- 
Al Chu
Livermore Computing
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory


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