Levi Pearson writes: | On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 14:51 -0700, Doug Ambrisko wrote: | > Hmm, for me with lan or lanplus interface I don't use -k option to | > do admin things like sol activate, chassis power reset etc. on Dell | > PE2950's. | | I found that with with the default PE2950 BMC settings over a lanplus | connection, connecting to the admin user without -k gave me USER | privileges and didn't allow sol activate. I was able to change the | settings via the OpenIPMI interface, but it was less trouble to get the | Kg key working than to have to reconfigure all the BMCs. I also may | have missed something along the way; maybe it does actually work without | reconfiguration and my problem was due to something else.
Okay, we don't use the default settings. We set everything from scratch since we don't know how a machine will come to us. | In any case, the Dells allow one to set Kg keys that cannot currently be | passed on the ipmitool command line. If the convenience of having an | ascii key outweighs the downside of not being able to communicate some | valid keys, I'll either change my keys to contain printable ascii | characters or re-investigate using lanplus without double-key | authentication. I have no objection to that and wondered how to set it when I first looked at it. I guess this is like WEP key notations. Doug A. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Ipmitool-devel mailing list Ipmitool-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ipmitool-devel
