The IPMI functionality of some Supermicro mainboards comes with two admin accounts by default, which are labeled in the webinterface: "ADMIN" "Anonymous" The official documentation only tells you to change the password of the "ADMIN" account: == Note: The manufacturer default username and password are ADMIN/ADMIN. Once you have logged into the BMC using the manufacturer default password, be sure to change your password for security purpose. == Because of this, and because it does not seem to possible to login with "Anonymous" in the webinterface, many admins do not bother to change the password of "Anonymous". However you can login to this account through SSH by specifying an empty username (default password "admin" in lowercase). == $ ssh -l "" -o PreferredAuthentications=password,keyboard-interactive xx.xx.xx.xx @xx.xx.xx.xx's password: Auth User/Pass with PS...pass. ATEN SMASH-CLP System Management Shell, version 1.00 Copyright (c) 2008-2009 by ATEN International CO., Ltd. All Rights Reserved -> == Tested on a X9SCL-F. The following model numbers seem to use the same firmware: == # cd /etc/conf ; ls *.xml platform.xml platform_H8DGU.xml platform_X7Sb3.xml platform_X8DTUplus.xml platform_X8STI_3F.xml platform_H8DCL.xml platform_H8DGU_LN4.xml platform_X8DTL_6F.xml platform_X8DTW_6F.xml platform_X9SCA.xml platform_H8DCT.xml platform_H8DGU_LN4_AI034.xml platform_X8DTL_iF.xml platform_X8SIA.xml platform_X9SCL.xml platform_H8DCT_IBQF.xml platform_H8QG6.xml platform_X8DTN.xml platform_X8SII.xml platform_X9SCM.xml platform_H8DG6.xml platform_H8QGI_AI034.xml platform_X8DTNplus.xml platform_X8SIL.xml platform_X9SRA.xml platform_H8DGG.xml platform_H8SCM.xml platform_X8DTT.xml platform_X8SIL_SIOM.xml platform_X9SRI.xml platform_H8DGT.xml platform_H8SGL.xml platform_X8DTU-F.xml platform_X8SIT.xml platform_H8DGT_HF_AI034.xml platform_X7SPA.xml platform_X8DTU.xml platform_X8SIU.xml platform_H8DGT_HIBQF_AI034.xml platform_X7SPT.xml platform_X8DTU_6TF.xml platform_X8STE.xml == Yours sincerly, Floris Bos