When you manually enable or disable a user with the racadm config subcommand, you must specify the
index with the -i option.
Observe that the cfgUserAdminIndex object displayed in the previous example contains a '#' character. It
indicates that it is a read-only object. Also, if you use the racadm config -f racadm.cfg command to
specify any number of groups/objects to write, the index cannot be specified. This behavior allows more
flexibility in configuring multiple iDRAC with the same settings.
To enable SNMP v3 authentication for a user, use SNMPv3AuthenticationType, SNMPv3Enable,
SNMPv3PrivacyType objects. For more information, see the RACADM Command Line Interface Guide
available at dell.com/esmmanuals.
If you are using the configuration XML file, then use the AuthenticationProtocol, ProtocolEnable, and
PrivacyProtocol attributes to enable SNMPv3 authentication.
Adding iDRAC User Using RACADM
To add a new user to the RAC configuration, perform the following:
1. Set the user name.
2. Set the password.
3. Set the following user privileges:
• iDRAC
• LAN
• Serial Port
• Serial Over LAN
4. Enable the user.
Example:
The following example describes how to add a new user named "John" with a "123456" password and
LOGIN privileges to the RAC.
racadm config -g cfgUserAdmin -o cfgUserAdminUserName -i 3 john
racadm config -g cfgUserAdmin -o cfgUserAdminPassword -i 3 123456
racadm config -g cfgUserAdmin -i 3 -o cfgUserAdminPrivilege 0x00000001
racadm config -g cfgUserAdmin -i 3 -o cfgUserAdminIpmiLanPrivilege 2
racadm config -g cfgUserAdmin -i 3 -o cfgUserAdminIpmiSerialPrivilege 2
racadm config -g cfgUserAdmin -i 3 -o cfgUserAdminSolEnable 1
racadm config -g cfgUserAdmin -i 3 -o cfgUserAdminEnable 1
To verify, use one of the following commands:
racadm getconfig -u john
racadm getconfig –g cfgUserAdmin –i 3
For more information on the RACADM commands, see the iDRAC8 RACADM Command Line Interface
Reference Guide available at dell.com/support/manuals.
Enabling iDRAC User With Permissions
To enable a user with specific administrative permissions (role-based authority):
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