Test Case "Verify IPMI Root User Password Change" in openbmc-test-automation

[Rahul Maheshwari]

Your solution sound good to me. You can push the code for the same.

Thanks
Rahul

On Thu, Dec 5, 2019 at 6:01 PM Tony Lee (李文富) <Tony.Lee at quantatw.com> wrote:

> Hi Rahul,
>
> Got it, it seems I can only skip it first.
> There is another question about test_ipmi_user.robot.
> Cases which creating a new user success, and then execute a external ipmi
> command with
> this new user account will fail on our system. For example, test case
> "Verify Setting Valid Password For IPMI User".
> The key is that the default channel in the Keyword "Set Channel Access" is
> 1.
> "eth0" corresponding to channel 1 is used for debug purposes, and
> "eth1" corresponding to channel 2 is used for ipmi remote access in our
> system.
> So once I set the default channel to 2 in the Keyword "Set Channel
> Access", those cases succeed.
>
> I have a solution: add variable ${CHANNEL} default is 1 in
> lib/resource.robot.
> Then, let ${channel}=${CHANNEL} in Keyword "Set Channel Access".
> Let user to specify channel while running, if not, the default is 1.
>
> Example: robot -v OPENBMC_HOST:x.x.x.x -v CHANNEL:2
> ipmi/test_ipmi_user.robot
>
> Is this approach sounds fine to you or there are other suggestions?
>
> Thanks
> Tony
>
> From: Rahul Maheshwari <rahulmaheshwari01 at gmail.com>
> Sent: Thursday, December 5, 2019 5:47 PM
> To: Tony Lee (李文富) <Tony.Lee at quantatw.com>
> Cc: openbmc at lists.ozlabs.org
> Subject: Re: Test Case "Verify IPMI Root User Password Change" in
> openbmc-test-automation
>
> Hi Tony,
> We have also faced the same problem. So to avoid such problems, we decided
> to set BMC password to 8 characters length before running our bucket. As
> far as skipping such test case, we can do that by using
> `-e Verify_IPMI_Root_User_Password_Change` while running.
>
> Example:
> robot -v OPENBMC_HOST:x.x.x.x -e Verify_IPMI_Root_User_Password_Change
> ipmi/test_ipmi_user.robot
>
> Thanks
> Rahul
>
> On Thu, Dec 5, 2019 at 8:05 AM Tony Lee (李文富) <mailto:
> Tony.Lee at quantatw.com> wrote:
> Hi Rahul,
>
> Reference to
> https://github.com/openbmc/openbmc-test-automation/issues/1920.
>
> Case "Verify IPMI Root User Password Change" will change root user
> password and
> unable to reset default password due to the length is limited to 8.
> As a result, cases will also fail after this because the password has been
> changed to 0penBmc1.
> Should we remove this test case? There seems to be no other way to fix it.
>
> Thanks
> Best Regards,
> Tony
>
>
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