Dell DRAC Passwords

Summary
Dell DRAC management cards require you log into them with a password. With Drac 4 the default superuser was "root" in the first index slot. With DRAC 5 they added "Administrator" to index 1 and moved root to index 2, which changes the command needed to change the root password.
The DRAC password may be changed by logging into the OS as OS user "root" and running the racadm command to change the DRAC "root" user password. The commands are listed below.
Default password
The default DRAC password for DELL PowerEdge systems is "calvin".
For DRAC 4 password
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:As root on the host run the following racadm command:
::racadm config -g cfgUserAdmin -o cfgUserAdminPassword -i 1 "<I>newpasswordhere</I>"
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:And to display all user information except the password:
::racadm getconfig -g cfgUserAdmin -i 1
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For DRAC 5 password
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:As root on the host run the following racadm command (notice it's index 2 for DRAC 5):
::racadm config -g cfgUserAdmin -o cfgUserAdminPassword -i 2 "<I>newpasswordhere</I>"
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:And to display all user information except the password:
::racadm getconfig -g cfgUserAdmin -i 2
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