Hello everyone,

for historical reasons we have older iDRAC systems with a username for admin access which is different from the username on the newer iDRACs which is confusing many times in our team.

In order to resolve this, I changed the username on every iDRAC to one specific with OpenManage Enterprise and this RACADM command:

set iDRAC.Users.2.UserName "username"

Now I also wanted to add a new user with the other username on these iDRACs while keeping the same password using these commands:

set iDRAC.Users.5.UserName "username"

set iDRAC.Users.5.Password "securepassword"

set iDRAC.Users.5.Privilege 0x000001ff

set iDRAC.Users.5.Enable 1

The problem is that it doesn't accept the password because of:

ERROR: Cannot execute the command with Illegal characters.

The password indeed has some special characters, but it's used for the other existing user and I can set this as the password for the new user, using the iDRAC Web-UI.

It would be very nice if someone could tell me how to set this password using racadm in OME because we want to simplify this process and we have a huge amount of Dell Servers where we have to set this.

Thank you <3

Best regards

Chrissy