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Date:      Tue, 27 Mar 2018 09:03:55 -0700
From:      Karl Young <karly@kipshouse.org>
To:        Paul Mather <freebsd-lists@gromit.dlib.vt.edu>
Cc:        byrnejb@harte-lyne.ca, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ipmitool and SuperMicro SYS-5027R-WRF
Message-ID:  <20180327160355.GC25402@mailboy.kipshouse.net>
In-Reply-To: <EE1D798F-D093-4DC3-9168-D9C583C38BAA@gromit.dlib.vt.edu>
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Paul Mather(freebsd-lists@gromit.dlib.vt.edu)@2018.03.27 09:58:47 -0400:
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> The above works well enough for me to get a SOL connection using ipmitool as well as providing a system console via SOL.  I did recently have an issue, but that concerned my having changed the IPMI ADMIN password to something that was too long: even though the password change seemed to work, authentication failed because the password had been silently truncated at the Supermicro side to something shorter. :-(
> 

If anyone else is curious, the max password length seems to be 20:

https://www.supermicro.com/support/faqs/faq.cfm?faq=16778

That's a long password.  {-;

-karl




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