diff --git a/xCAT-nbroot/overlay/bin/allowcred.awk b/xCAT-nbroot/overlay/bin/allowcred.awk
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..341138d3e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/xCAT-nbroot/overlay/bin/allowcred.awk
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+#!/usr/bin/awk -f
+BEGIN {
+        listener = "/inet/tcp/300/0/0"
+        quit = "no"
+
+
+       while (match(quit,"no")) {
+         while ((listener |& getline) > 0) {
+                 if (match($0,"CREDOKBYYOU?")) {
+                         print "CREDOKBYME" |& listener
+                   }
+         }
+         close(listener)
+      }
+}
diff --git a/xCAT-nbroot/overlay/bin/bmcsetup b/xCAT-nbroot/overlay/bin/bmcsetup
index 0d12ee466..f08e92498 100755
--- a/xCAT-nbroot/overlay/bin/bmcsetup
+++ b/xCAT-nbroot/overlay/bin/bmcsetup
@@ -1,10 +1,13 @@
 # IBM(c) 2007 EPL license http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
+allowcred.awk &
+CREDPID=$!
 modprobe ipmi_si
 modprobe ipmi_devintf
 while ! getipmi
 do
     echo "Retrying retrieval of IPMI settings from server"
 done
+kill $CREDPID
 BMCIP=`grep bmcip /tmp/ipmi.data |awk -F\> '{print $2}'|awk -F\< '{print $1}'`
 BMCGW=`grep gateway /tmp/ipmi.data |awk -F\> '{print $2}'|awk -F\< '{print $1}'`
 BMCNM=`grep netmask /tmp/ipmi.data |awk -F\> '{print $2}'|awk -F\< '{print $1}'`