Lost Supermicro IPMI password - any way to reset? (2024)

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RichTJ99

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Hi,

So i bought a used X9SCM-F on Ebay. Board works great but the IPMI wont allow me to login (ADMIN/ADMIN). I rebooted & in the bios security I changed the password to admin. I am unable to get in (Never was able to get in).

I found these instructions: https://support.ixsystems.com/index...gresetting-ipmi-password-via-truenas--freenas

But it doesnt work. Any ideas how I can reset the IPMI to default (or something else)?

Thanks,
Rich

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From the system shell in FreeNAS or putty. ipmicfg -fd or ipmitool raw 0x3c 0x40

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Jailer said:

From the system shell in FreeNAS or putty. ipmicfg -fd or ipmitool raw 0x3c 0x40

I just tried this:

Code:

[root@freenas] ~# ipmicfg -fdipmicfg: Command not found.[root@freenas] ~# ipmitool raw 0x3c 0x40Could not open device at /dev/ipmi0 or /dev/ipmi/0 or /dev/ipmidev/0: No such file or directory

Any other suggestions on doing it via Putty? I would prefer (if possible) to keep the system running. Since this was an ebay purchase its likely that the last user changed the admin password.

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Supermicro Bios Password / SoftlayerSupermicro X9SCM-F Bios Password reset?Need to reset IPMI but no CPU and no POST - Supermicro X11SPM-F

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scrappy said:

Not too sure you can reset the password this way without first being logged into your server's IMPI admin account. Otherwise it would be a huge security flaw since anybody on the network could theoretically change or reset the password

I missed the OR between the 2 options.

But you can definitely change the password if you have physical access to the machine as I have mentioned in that link.

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RichTJ99 said:

Any other suggestions on doing it via Putty? I would prefer (if possible) to keep the system running.

Not sure. I've used the command a few times in the past when my IPMI has locked up and it's reset it just fine and cleared it to factory defaults. I don't remember now which one I used but one of them did work.

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Jailer said:

Not sure. I've used the command a few times in the past when my IPMI has locked up and it's reset it just fine and cleared it to factory defaults. I don't remember now which one I used but one of them did work.

I see ipmitool is included in FreeNAS 11. So would #ipmitool mc reset cold do the trick?

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It will restart the BMC but not reset it to factory defaults.

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Hi

this worked for me from the FreeNAS cli
ipmitool user list
then
ipmitool user set password <userid fromlist> <newpassword>

Henning

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Henning Kessler said:

Hi

this worked for me from the FreeNAS cli
ipmitool user list
then
ipmitool user set password <userid fromlist> <newpassword>

Henning

This worked great!

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