[Ipmitool-devel] manipulating NULL user

[Jeremy E. <je...@je...>]

The NULL user is always (or should always be) user 1.  IPMI users aren't
created so much as they are enabled.  There are a certain number of "slots"
available for configured users.

You can enable the NULL user with:
    ipmitool user enable 1

Then you should be able to specify -U "" on the command line to login
as the NULL user.  The NULL user may or may not have a NULL password.

Jeremy

Eric A. Hall writes:
 > 
 > I am looking at using the NULL user to resolve my graphing problems
 > (unable to pass parameters, so lets try using NULL...). I don't see
 > anything in the man pages or docs about manipulating NULL.
 > 
 > "ipmitool enable <next-userid>" seems to create a new user with no
 > username, but queries die:
 > 
 > $ipmitool -H rhino-ipmi -I lan -P "" sdr type fan
 > NULL user name not enabled
 > Error: Unable to establish LAN session
 > Error obtaining SDR info
 > Unable to open SDR for reading
 > 
 > Can somebody give me a kick? Is there a special userid?
 > 
 > Thanks
 > 
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