I copied this from the iDrac 6 guide

Adding an iDRAC6 User

To add a new user to iDRAC6, perform the following steps:

1 Set the user name.

2 Set the password.

3 Set the Login to iDRAC6 user privilege.

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 iDRAC6:

racadm config -g cfgUserAdmin -o cfgUserAdminUserName -i 2 john

racadm config -g cfgUserAdmin -o cfgUserAdminPassword -i 2 123456

racadm config -g cfgUserAdmin -o cfgUserAdminPrivilege -i 2 0x00000001

racadm config -g cfgUserAdmin -o cfgUserAdminEnable -i 2 1

To verify the new user, use one of the following commands:

racadm getconfig -u john

racadm getconfig –g cfgUserAdmin –i 2

So maybe "racadm config -g cfgUserAdmin -o cfgUserAdminPassword -i # 123456"  Where # is the no. for the actual root acct?  (I believe it's 0 or 1)  I think I did try something like that but will give it another go and post back.

If I'm not mistaken it is 1.

Entered

racadm config -g cfgUserAdmin -o cfgUserAdminPassword -i 1 mydesiredpwd

syntax error returned

What am I missing here?  Would I have to enter every racadm command like I'm setting up a new user even though I simply want to change the password on an already existing login/user/acct?

information about the # for the root account is in the following thread:

en.community.dell.com/.../17506289.aspx

Peter

Thanks for the link.  However that is the exact command I entered to attempt to change my root password and I received a error.  See below.  The picture does not contain my password but I did enter one.

have you tried to do this locally instead of through remote shell (rsh)?

Nassim

By the way if you meant locally as in changing the root password via the CMC iKVM web interface.  Yes that is the first way I tried.  I receive a "the operation has completed successfully" notification after hitting apply.  However when I log out and attempt to log back in the password has not changed from the default of CALVIN.

Yes, that is what I meant, locally sitting in front of the KVM Chassis. sorry I didn't notice you wrote two answers, just read the last one.

That's weird, how about creating another admin account and then changing the root password.