[Freeipmi-devel] Re: running ipmipower

[Albert Chu]

Hmmm.  I was thinking about this last night, and I'm now thinking of
disabling the permsg auth command line option.  The only use of it is
the force the user to know if per-msg auth is disabled on the remote
node.  I'm now thinking ipmipower should authenticate based on the
permsg-auth flag in the Get Authentication Capabilities command.  Its up
to the users to configure the BMC on the remote node as they wish.

Any thoughts?

Al

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Albert Chu
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Bala.A" <address@hidden>
Date: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 5:16 pm
Subject: Re: running ipmipower

> Hi,
> ipmipower works fine now.
> My suggestion are;
> 1. we have to show -e option in usage output.
> 2. The error message should be something like "permsgauth must be
> disabled.  Enable permsgauth on <HOSTNAME> or try -e option".
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Best Regards
> Bala
> 
> > Hey Bala,
> >
> > The default in ipmipower is to always use per-msg authentication 
> unless> you tell it otherwise.  So you have to use the -e option to 
> tell it
> > which nodes not to use per-msg authetnication with.
> >
> > /usr/sbin/ipmipower -h ptdev3 -e ptdev3 -u foo -p bar --stat
> >
> > Its been awhile since I programmed this.  I know I debated whether
> > ipmipower should automatically use per-msg auth or not based on 
> the data
> > from the Get Authentication Capabilities command.  I can't 
> remember why
> > I chose the current approach.  Do you think it should do something
> > otherwise??  Is per-msg-auth disabled by default on some 
> machines??  Or
> > should I just document it better in the manpage/usage output??
> >
> > Al
> >
> > --
> > Albert Chu
> > address@hidden
> > Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Bala.A" <address@hidden>
> > Date: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 4:25 pm
> > Subject: running ipmipower
> >
> >> Hi Al
> >>  When I run ipmipower, it throws an error "permsgauth must be
> >> disabled".
> >> I have checked with bmc-config and permsgauth is disabled for LAN
> >> Channel.  Strange thing is Intel Cli power command works fine.
> >>
> >> The following is my ipmipower command execution
> >>
> >> debian-sid:~# ipmipower -h debian-ia64 -p "" -s
> >> debian-ia64: permsgauth must be disabled
> >> debian-sid:~#
> >>
> >> Could you tell me what I'm missing?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Best Regards
> >> Bala
> >>
> >> --
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> >>
> >
> >
> 
> 
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