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_mgmt.hpp b/user_channel/user_mgmt.hpp
index 9ea9f6b..857be99 100644
--- a/user_channel/user_mgmt.hpp
+++ b/user_channel/user_mgmt.hpp
@@ -217,6 +217,16 @@
*/
ipmi_ret_t setUserPassword(const uint8_t userId, const char* userPassword);
+ /** @brief to set special user password
+ *
+ * @param[in] userName - user name
+ * @param[in] userPassword - new password of the user
+ *
+ * @return IPMI_CC_OK for success, others for failure.
+ */
+ ipmi_ret_t setSpecialUserPassword(const std::string& userName,
+ const std::string& userPassword);
+
/** @brief to set user privilege and access details
*
* @param[in] userId - user id