API support to update password for special user
Provide API support to update password for special user.
This API will be used by OEM Command to update the special
user password - linux uid 0 (root user).
More details can be referred from
https://github.com/openbmc/docs/blob/master/user_management.md#deployment---out-of-factory
Tested:
1. Verified the API with OEM command implementation, and able to
configure the password for user exists in the system /etc/passwd.
2. Verified the negative case for failure
Change-Id: I3c2a7007587e52c7e713f0cd976f249dd84a5f75
Signed-off-by: Richard Marian Thomaiyar <richard.marian.thomaiyar@linux.intel.com>
diff --git a/user_channel/user_layer.cpp b/user_channel/user_layer.cpp
index b241564..adfc656 100644
--- a/user_channel/user_layer.cpp
+++ b/user_channel/user_layer.cpp
@@ -88,6 +88,12 @@
return getUserAccessObject().setUserPassword(userId, userPassword);
}
+ipmi_ret_t ipmiSetSpecialUserPassword(const std::string& userName,
+ const std::string& userPassword)
+{
+ return getUserAccessObject().setSpecialUserPassword(userName, userPassword);
+}
+
ipmi_ret_t ipmiUserGetAllCounts(uint8_t& maxChUsers, uint8_t& enabledUsers,
uint8_t& fixedUsers)
{