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.