Attention users of network IPMI

[Deepak Kodihalli]

On 29/03/18 2:53 pm, Tom Joseph wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Based on  feedback from the team writing management scripts for OpenBMC. 
> There is a suggestion to
> support the "-U" parameter when running the IPMI over network, to keep 
> the script consistent across
> multiple BMC implementations.
> 
> The support currently in  OpenBMC for the IPMI user accounts is the 
> nameless account and the -U option
> is not needed and only the -P option is needed. With the proposed 
> change, "-U admin" is needed, for the

This would break current users based on a nameless account. So I suppose 
that you'd have to still support a nameless account.

> session setup to succeed. "root"  username was not preferred so that the 
> user does not get confused with the
> linux user account.
> 
> IPMITool usage with the proposed change:
> 
> ipmitool -I lanplus -H x.x.x.x -U admin -P 0penBmc <cmd>
> 
> https://gerrit.openbmc-project.xyz/#/c/9643/
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Tom
> 

Regards,
Deepak