[Freeipmi-devel] Re: running ipmipower

[Albert Chu]

Hey Bala,

The default in ipmipower is to always use per-msg authentication unless
you tell it otherwise.  So you have to use the -e option to tell it
which nodes not to use per-msg authetnication with.

/usr/sbin/ipmipower -h ptdev3 -e ptdev3 -u foo -p bar --stat

Its been awhile since I programmed this.  I know I debated whether
ipmipower should automatically use per-msg auth or not based on the data
from the Get Authentication Capabilities command.  I can't remember why
I chose the current approach.  Do you think it should do something
otherwise??  Is per-msg-auth disabled by default on some machines??  Or
should I just document it better in the manpage/usage output??

Al

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Albert Chu
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Bala.A" <address@hidden>
Date: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 4:25 pm
Subject: running ipmipower

> Hi Al
>  When I run ipmipower, it throws an error "permsgauth must be 
> disabled". 
> I have checked with bmc-config and permsgauth is disabled for LAN
> Channel.  Strange thing is Intel Cli power command works fine.
> 
> The following is my ipmipower command execution
> 
> debian-sid:~# ipmipower -h debian-ia64 -p "" -s
> debian-ia64: permsgauth must be disabled
> debian-sid:~#
> 
> Could you tell me what I'm missing?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Best Regards
> Bala
> 
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