Heads-Up: Supermicro Unique IPMI Passwords

[Skud]

So, I ran into this tonight with a new X11SPL. Apparently in November 2019 Supermicro started programming in unique passwords for IPMI access. It's no longer ADMIN/ADMIN.

The username is still ADMIN, but the password is printed on a sticker on the board.

BMC Unique Password Security Feature, November 2019 | Supermicro

Thanks!!
Riley

 

[RedX1]

Hi


I just received a motherboard from Supermicro after upgrade with new VRM’s. It had this this new IPMI password feature.

As well as the new scripts, I can confirm the resetting the password with Supermicro IPMIcfg. in DOS worked as normal.

I could not reset the IPMI password using IPMItool raw commands within a Linux OS.



I hope that helps.



RedX1

 

[Patrick]

I was thinking about doing a piece on this.

There are other new changes as well. One example is that if you try to set ADMIN/ ADMIN in the web GUI you get an error because it does not meet 8 character password requirements.