bmc user

Updates the password for a given BMC User ID.

Syntax

bmc user id <user-id> password <password>

Parameters

id <user-id>: The ID of the BMC user for which password is to be changed.
password <password>: The new password to be applied for this BMC User ID.

Modes

Privileged Exec mode

Usage Guidelines

Passwords must meet the following criteria:

Minimum 8 char length.
Should not be same as the previous password.

Your new password cannot be the same as the previous password. The minimum length of this password must be 8 (eight) characters.

To successfully validate a password change for a user, use the external ipmitool command. The ipmitool command and its parameters are not a part of the SLX-OS command line interface and is not documented in the Extreme SLX-OS Command Reference.

Executing the ipmitool -H BMC_IP -U username -P password mc info command with the updated password should output a valid result.

By default, BMC has only one user with user-id of 2 and name qct.admin. You can add new users using the ipmitool command. These new User IDs can then be managed using this command.

Examples

The following example shows how to configure a password for a BMC User ID 2.

SLX# bmc user id 2 password mypassword
	Set User Password command successful (user 2)
SLX#

This example shows the output of the ipmitool used for verifying a password change. This command will fail if the updated password is not supplied.

[root@SLX]# ipmitool -H 10.20.111.111 -U qct.admin -P mypassword mc info
Device ID                :32
Device Revision          : 1
Firmware Revision        : 3.20
IPMI Version             : 2.0
Manufacturer ID          : 7244
Manufacturer Name        : Quanta
Product ID               : 2567 (0x0a07)
Product Name             : Unknown (0xA07)
Device Available         : yes
Provides Device SDRs     : yes
Additional Device Support :
	Sensor Device
	SDR Repository Device
	SEL Device
	FRU Inventory Device
	IPMB Event Receiver
	IPMB Event Generator
	Chassis Device
Aux Firmware Rev Info :
	0x00
	0x00
	0x00
       0x00

This example shows the output of the ipmitool command when an incorrect password is supplied.

[root@SLX]# ipmitool -H 10.20.111.111 -U qct.admin -P mypassword12 mc info
    Activate Session error: Invalid data field in request
    Error: Unable to establish LAN session
    Error: Unable to establish IPMI v1.5 / RMCP session