Users Guide
A warning message is also displayed when you log in to iDRAC using SSH, Telnet, remote RACADM, or the Web interface. For Web
interface, SSH, and Telnet, a single warning message is displayed for each session. For remote RACADM, the warning message is
displayed for each command.
NOTE: For information on recommended characters for user names and passwords, see Recommended characters in
user names and passwords.
Related links
Enabling or disabling default password warning message
Changing default login password using web interface
When you log in to iDRAC Web interface, if the Default Password Warning page is displayed, you can change the password. To do
this:
1. Select the Change Default Password option.
2. In the New Password eld, enter the new password.
NOTE: For information on recommended characters for user names and passwords, see Recommended characters in
user names and passwords.
3. In the Conrm Password eld, enter the password again.
4. Click Continue. The new password is congured and you are logged in to iDRAC.
NOTE: Continue is enabled only if the passwords entered in the New Password and Conrm Password elds match.
For information about the other elds, see the iDRAC Online Help.
Changing default login password using RACADM
To change the password, run the following RACADM command:
racadm set iDRAC.Users.<index>.Password <Password>
where, <index> is a value from 1 to 16 (indicates the user account) and <password> is the new user—dened password.
For more information, see the iDRAC RACADM Command Line Interface Reference Guide available at dell.com/idracmanuals.
NOTE: For information on recommended characters for user names and passwords, see Recommended characters in
user names and passwords.
Changing default login password using iDRAC settings utility
To change the default login password using iDRAC Settings Utility:
1. In the iDRAC Settings utility, go to User Conguration.
The iDRAC Settings.User Conguration page is displayed.
2. In the Change Password eld, enter the new password.
NOTE: For information on recommended characters for user names and passwords, see Recommended characters in
user names and passwords.
3. Click Back, click Finish, and then click Yes.
The details are saved.
Enabling or disabling default password warning message
You can enable or disable the display of the default password warning message. To do this, you must have Congure Users privilege.
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