This was the fix.  Thank you very much.

On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 11:25:13AM +0100, François Chavant wrote:
> Hello John,
> 
> I had similar errors (on other hardware however).
> The problem turned out to be the BMC configuration: cipher suites were
> configured in such a way that an admin could not use cipher number 2
> to log in. I had to change uuuOXXuuOXXuOXX to uuaOXXuuOXXuOXX (watch
> the third character which changed from 'u' to 'a')
> You could probably do this by adapting this command: ipmitool -H
> node001-bmc -U admin_name -P admin_password lan set 1 cipher_privs
> uuaOXXuuOXXuOXX
> 
> Cheers,
> François Chavant
> 
> On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 10:22 PM, John Griffin-Wiesner
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hello.
> >
> > We're using xCAT 2.6.9 on a CentOS 6.0 management node to
> > provision some SGI XE310 nodes.  rcons works well, but when I try
> > rpower I get
> >
> > root@xenops-mgt [/root] # rpower cl1n166 status -V
> > cl1n166: Error: Cannot acquire sufficient privilege
> > cl1n166: Error: Cannot acquire sufficient privilege
> > cl1n166: Error: Cannot acquire sufficient privilege
> > cl1n166: Error: timeout
> >
> > And this in the syslog:
> > Dec  6 15:15:50 xCAT: xCAT: Allowing rpower to cl1n166 status -V for root 
> > from localhost
> >
> >
> > The expected ipmitool command works to control the power:
> > ipmitool -U xxxxxx -P xxxxxx -I lanplus -o supermicro -H cl1n166-bmc power 
> > status/on/off/reset/soft
> >
> > We haven't had a lot of time to look into this, but would
> > appreciate if anyone has a suggestion on the fix.
> >
> > --
> > John Griffin-Wiesner
> > HPC Systems Administrator
> > Minnesota Supercomputing Institute
> > http://www.msi.umn.edu
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