Re: [Freeipmi-users] Authentication, problems and funny things

[Albert Chu]

Hi,

Although I'm not 100% sure (I'd need more BMC config info to be sure),
the remote BMC seems to support NULL usernames and NULL passwords.  

Ipmipower works without a username/password if it is supported by the
remote BMC (which seems to be this particular case).  

However, ipmitool always seems to prompt for a password.  Naturally, if
you input the wrong one (in this case, anything other than NULL?), it
naturally won't connect.

Are you observing something other than the above?

One side note, I assume for the moment you haven't configured an
ipmipower.conf file.  The ipmipower.conf file (/etc/ipmipower.conf on
most systems) can hold alternate default values, such as a password.

Al

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----- Original Message -----
From: Massimiliano Masi <address@hidden>
Date: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 1:11 am
Subject: [Freeipmi-users] Authentication, problems and funny things

> Hello, 
> 
> I'm trying to setup a BMC with an Intel 6300ESB (the same as 
> the mail of 3 days ago).
> 
> The authentication seems to work perfectly.
> 
> I've setup the auth with Ipmitool, since the bmc-config --commit 
> was not
> able to update my configuration.
> 
> So I've this users:
> 
> address@hidden:~/MASSI/sw/sbin# ../bin/ipmitool -I lan -H 
> 192.168.0.14 chassis power off
> Password:       <<< INCORRECT PASS HERE
> Activate Session command failed
> Error: Unable to establish LAN session
> ipmi_lan_send_cmd failed to open intf
> Unable to set Chassis Power Control to Down/Off
> address@hidden:~/MASSI/sw/sbin# ../bin/ipmitool -I lan -H 
> 192.168.0.14 chassis power off
> Password:       <<< CORRECT PASS HERE
> Chassis Power Control: Down/Off
> 
> It's OK, but FreeIPMI doesn't care about the authentication, so I'm 
> able to
> boot the machine without any pass:
> 
> address@hidden:~/MASSI/sw/sbin# ./ipmipower -h 192.168.0.14 --on
> 192.168.0.14: ok
> address@hidden:~/MASSI/sw/sbin# ./ipmipower -h 192.168.0.14 --stat
> 192.168.0.14: on
> 
> 
> :-)
> 
> Any ideas??? I've this users:
> 
> address@hidden:~/MASSI/sw/sbin# ../bin/ipmitool -I lan -H 
> 192.168.0.14 user list 1
> Password:
> ID  Name             Callin  Link Auth  IPMI Msg   Channel Priv Limit
> 1                    false   true       true       ADMINISTRATOR
> 2   ADMIN            true    false      false      ADMINISTRATOR
> 3   max              false   false      false      NO ACCESS
> 4   admin            true    false      false      NO ACCESS
> 5   max              true    false      false      NO ACCESS
> 10  max              true    false      false      NO ACCESS
> 
> 
> -- 
> Massimiliano Masi
> 
> http://gauss.comunidelchianti.it/~max
> 
> 
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