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This article provides information on the iDRAC6 web GUI will not accept a ":" (colon) character in user password.

Question

If a user attempts to create or change a user password in the iDRAC6 web GUI, a colon is not accepted. The iDRAC6 web page will flash, and the password does not take.

A colon is an acceptable ASCII character, and is allowed to be used in the user password.



Answer

Use the local or remote RACADM CLI utilityto set the password when using a colon.

For more information on the RACADM CLI utility, see the Systems Management WIKI page RACADM Command Line Interface for DRAC.


Note: A fix was included in iDRAC6 firmware 1.30.

For more information on updating the iDRAC firmware, see the Systems Management WIKI page Dell Remote Access Controller - DRAC / iDRAC .

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