Is it possible to reset the password on a SuperMicro IPMI interface?

If you access it locally you can specify a new password. On Linux this would be done via ipmitool. Something like this should work:

ipmitool -I open lan set 1 password NEWPASSWORD

If you don't know which channel is your ethernet interface, just page through them one at at time, like so:

# ipmitool -I open channel info 1
Channel 0x1 info:
  Channel Medium Type   : 802.3 LAN
  Channel Protocol Type : IPMB-1.0
  Session Support       : multi-session
  Active Session Count  : 0
  Protocol Vendor ID    : 7154
  Volatile(active) Settings
    Alerting            : disabled
    Per-message Auth    : disabled
    User Level Auth     : enabled
    Access Mode         : always available
  Non-Volatile Settings
    Alerting            : disabled
    Per-message Auth    : disabled
    User Level Auth     : enabled
    Access Mode         : always available

Note that the medium type is "802.3 LAN". That's the one you want. Other channels may look like this:

# ipmitool -I open channel info 2
Channel 0x2 info:
  Channel Medium Type   : Serial/Modem
  Channel Protocol Type : IPMB-1.0
  Session Support       : single-session
  Active Session Count  : 0
  Protocol Vendor ID    : 7154
# ipmitool -I open channel info 3
Channel 0x3 info:
  Channel Medium Type   : System Interface
  Channel Protocol Type : KCS
  Session Support       : session-less
  Active Session Count  : 0
  Protocol Vendor ID    : 7154

I just had to deal with this same issue yesterday, I was not able to log into my SuperMicro IPMI web interface because I had not used it frequently and forgot the password. The command in Insyte's answer did not work for me but it was close. This command worked to reset the ADMIN account's password:

ipmitool -I open user set password 2 ADMIN

The number 2 there is the user id. The ADMIN account defaults to user id 2. So I'm setting user id 2's password to ADMIN which is the default, but you could put any other password there.

Thank you to Insyte for pointing me on the right track of using ipmitool, after a few searches online I was able to find this working command. Hopefully it will help someone else that stumbles on this question.

Supermicro IPMI BMCs can be fairly erratic and troublesome. You should always use the utilities and tools provided by Supermicro before attempting a fix with universal tools such as IPMITool.

It is not necessary to reset the entire unit as others have suggested.

If you have physical access to the server, follow these simple steps to reset the ADMIN password on your IPMI:

1. Create a bootable DOS USB stick using Rufus.
2. Download the latest IPMICFG utility released by Supermicro.
3. Extract the archive and copy the contents of the 'DOS' folder on to your bootable DOS USB.
4. Boot your server into DOS and navigate to the 'DOS' folder you copied on to the USB.

5. Get the user ID of the IPMI user whose password you want to set:

   ipmicfg -user list

6. Set a new password for that user (the ADMIN user typically has an ID of 2):

   ipmicfg -user setpwd 2 your_password_here

7. Login to the IPMI web GUI using the password you just set.

I've reset the ADMIN password on dozens of Supermicro IPMI BMCs. Of all the methods I've tried, this is the only procedure that works 100% of the time.

Note: If you already have Windows or Linux installed on your system, then you can skip steps 1, 3 and 4 and merely execute the commands in steps 5 and 6 using the appropriate executable from the Supermicro toolkit downloaded in step 2. If you are using Linux and you encounter kcs_error_exit messages when invoking ipmicfg commands, then you need to install the OpenIPMI library and enable the ipmi_devintf kernel module.

The following commands work on CentOS 6:

yum -y install OpenIPMI
modprobe ipmi_devintf

Remember that the command modprobe ipmi_devintf will need to be re-run every time you reboot the server.