6.16.3 Using Oracle Exadata Deployment Assistant on Systems with Non-Default root Passwords
You can use the -p
option to prompt for a password instead of resetting the root
password to the expected default value.
Starting with the November 2016 release, Oracle Exadata Deployment Assistant (OEDA) supports deployment on Oracle Exadata Racks that already have non-default
root
passwords. You can perform the
deployment without having to change the root
password back to the default. In earlier releases, OEDA expected the root
password to be the default
on all the servers in an Oracle Exadata Rack.
With the new non-default password feature, root
passwords can have
different values on each node in a rack. If non-default
passwords are already set, add the -p
option to
the existing command line options when you run OEDA. For example:
./install.sh -cf <config.xml> -s 1 -p
The -p
option causes OEDA to prompt for the root
password. Make sure
you enter the correct password because an incorrect password
disables root
access for 10 minutes, and after
5 failed login attempts, the server is locked down.
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