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.hpp b/user_channel/user_layer.hpp
index 5f3567a..57f5317 100644
--- a/user_channel/user_layer.hpp
+++ b/user_channel/user_layer.hpp
@@ -138,6 +138,16 @@
ipmi_ret_t ipmiUserSetUserPassword(const uint8_t userId,
const char* userPassword);
+/** @brief set special user password (non-ipmi accounts)
+ *
+ * @param[in] userName - user name
+ * @param[in] userPassword - New Password
+ *
+ * @return IPMI_CC_OK for success, others for failure.
+ */
+ipmi_ret_t ipmiSetSpecialUserPassword(const std::string& userName,
+ const std::string& userPassword);
+
/** @brief get user name
*
* @param[in] userId - user id