How to use IPMI Commands to Reset Password and Username on BMC for Intel® Server Boards
IPMI commands to reset a password
- The command below can be used to list the BMC user id's.
# ipmitool user list 1
- For example, if you want to reset the password of root, the userid of root is 2.
# ipmitool user set password 2 password@123
IPMI commands to create a new user name
- The following commands can be used to create a new user and set a password:
# Ipmitool user set name "user id" "username"for example: #ipmitool user set name 3 test
- Now set the password using the command below:
#ipmitool user set password 3 password@123 - Enable a newly created user:
#ipmitool user enable 3 - Set user privileges. In this case, we will set administrator privileges:
# Ipmitool channel setaccess channelNO. userID callin=on ipmi=on link=on privilege=4Below are the privilege levels that can be set for the user.
Privilege levels:- 0x1 - Callback
- 0x2 - User
- 0x3 - Operator
- 0x4 - Administrator
- 0x5 - OEM Proprietary
- 0xF - No Access
#ipmitool channel setaccess 1 3 callin=on ipmi=on link=on privilege=4
The user list command output below indicates new user test with administrator privileges.
[root@localhost ~]# ipmitool user list 1
ID Name Callin Link Auth IPMI Msg Channel Priv Limit 1 false false true ADMINISTRATOR 2 root false true true ADMINISTRATOR 3 test true true true ADMINISTRATOR Note Intel® Server's Integrated Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) can be accessed by standard, off-the-shelf terminal, open-sourced, or terminal emulator utilities. One example is the IPMIUtility that allows access to sensor status information and power control. Customers own the risk of using open-source utilities. Intel has no control on these utilities and cannot guarantee any fix with these utilities.
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