If you can reboot it without anyone noticing? Really, really easily: iDRAC gives you access to the local console, like a remote KVM. Reboot into single user mode, change a password, done.

Oh, IPMI and friends are a total mess. Some implementations allow one to take control of a running server remotely especially if they use a shared ethernet for management ( popular in supermicros ). I once had our security geek demonstrate it by taking over the running server, rebooting it using network emulated USB stick, adding a file into /etc and rebooting the server again.

In secure environments one pulls IPMI module from the server or only uses the modules that have their own dedicated NICs that have to be wired to their own management network.

The first time I booted a server using a virtual CD-ROM (iso on my laptop shows up as a hardware CD-ROM on the server) over IPMI I was simultaneously relieved (because I could fix the machine remotely) and absolutely totally horrified.

iDRAC is a full onboard whitehat rootkit manufactured and supported by Dell. It runs independently of any OS and has control over the system. It is intended to be a substitute for physical access.

In certain configurations, iDRAC gives you an rdp connection. If idrac is left at default, windows admin login not being changed isn't too much of a stretch.

iDrac have a default password : https://danblee.com/dell-idrac-default-username-and-password...

There also quite a number of sysadmins that connect idrac's to the "regular" network, instead of the sysadmin VLAN ...