DRAC, racadm, and configuration files

Hello,

I have a mix of the following DRAC cards:

DRAC5

iDRAC6 Firmware v 1.2

iDRAC6 Firmware v 1.8

I use racadmn and a configuration file to change DRAC passwords. For my DRAC5 and iDRAC6 Firmware v 1.2 cards, my config file looks like this:

[cfgUserAdmin]
cfgUserAdminUserName=root
cfgUserAdminPassword=somepassword

For my iDRAC6 Firmware v 1.8 cards, my config file looks like this:

[cfgUserAdmin]
cfgUserAdminIndex=2
cfgUserAdminUserName=root
cfgUserAdminPassword=somepassword

The reason for my post centers around the "cfgUserAdminIndex=2" line. For my DRAC5 and iDRAC6 Firmware v 1.2 cards, if this were present in the config file, the results of applying the config file to the respective DRACs returns the following:

ERROR: The specified object is READ ONLY and cannot be modified.
ERROR: Failed to configure object. Group: cfgUserAdmin, Object = cfgUserAdminIndex

For my iDRAC6 Firmware v1.8 cards, if "cfgUserAdminIndex=2" is NOT present in the config file, the results of applying the config file returns the following:

Object UserID in cfgUserAdmin group must be specified. Line: [1]

Documentation for DRAC5 and iDRAC Firmware v 1.2 says the following:

"You cannot specify an index of your choice in a .cfg file"

I don't see this same information in the iDRAC Firmware v 1.7 (1.8 says to refer to 1.7) documentation but I don't see anything referencing this change in any of the READMEs.

Do my config files look correct for my various cards? Am I interpreting the return errors correctly? It seems strange that iDRAC6 Firmware v1.7 would behave differently in this regard than it's previous versions.

Thank you,

Jacob