Owner's Manual

Configuring Your Network 23
5 Establish an administration account with a user name and password,
using the following procedure (assuming the channel is 1):
a Configure BMC to authenticate password for Admin access over LAN.
For example:
# ipmitool lan set 1 auth ADMIN MD5,PASSWORD
b List the account slots on the BMC, and identify an unused slot
(a User ID with an empty user name field). For example:
# ipmitool channel getaccess 1
. . .
User ID : 4
User Name :
Fixed Name : No
Access Available : call-in / callback
Link Authentication : disabled
IPMI Messaging : disabled
Privilege Level : NO ACCESS
. . .
c Assign the desired administrator user name and password and enable
messaging for the identified slot. Also set the privilege level for that
slot when accessed over LAN (channel 1) to ADMIN (level 4).
For example:
# ipmitool user set name 4 bmcuser
# ipmitool user set password 4 password
# ipmitool user enable 4
# ipmitool channel setaccess 1 4 privilege=4
# ipmitool channel setaccess 1 4 link=on
# ipmitool channel setaccess 1 4 ipmi=on
Where bmcuser is the administrative user name, and password is
the password.