Thanks for that Lonewolf70,, My question is, say somebody has changed the root calvin password, and forgotten it, does anyone know of a way to reset again. ?

 

In IT Assistant, you can reset the password by logging in with the root account.  Click on Systems, click the machine name, and then open the Users tab to change the password.  Not sure if this is exactly what you are looking for.

If you have installed the managed system software and selected RAC during install, you can use the racadm command line utility to change the root password.  (You only need administrator rights on the local system to use local racadm).  Type:

racadm -g cfgUserAdmin -o cfgUserAdminPassword -i 1 [new password here]

This assumes that the user "root" still exists and is at index 1 (first user).  If not, you can create a brand new user with  racadm -g cfgUserAdmin -o cfgUserAdminName -i [a free index] [new user name].  The indexes are 1 - 16.  Then give the user at this index a password as in the above step (substitute your new index for the 1).

If you don't have local racadm, you can flash the firmware with the floppy repair utility (download from dell.com).  This will reset all configurable options to the factory defaults (including deleting all users except root- password is calvin).  You will have to use Ctrl-D during post to reset your IP address.

DRAC III PCI cards have a button on them you can push that will reset the card, including password for the root account, back to defaults.