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How to reset IPMI admin password using ipmitool

Reset IPMI admin password
Reset IPMI admin password

Reset IPMI admin password using ipmitool

This post explains how to reset the IPMI admin password using ipmitool. If your server is accessible and you have lost it’s IPMI password you can reset the IPMI admin password using the following steps:

Run the following command to get the IPMI user list:
ipmitool user list

Sample Output:

[root@server ~]# ipmitool user list
ID Name Callin Link Auth IPMI Msg Channel Priv Limit
2 ADMIN true false false Unknown (0x00)
[root@server ~]#

Note the ID of ADMIN user from the above example.

Then reset IPMI password:
ipmitool user set password 2

That’s it!

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