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jaikumar_f5_226
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Jul 28, 2017

11.5.4 displaying incorrect username as root || Article K70082161

Hi All,

Looking for more insight on the Article. Well the article does says once local user logins, it shows the username as root. But I'm more of concerned of the privileges it deals with.

A local user with resource-admin is not equivalent to root. As in root is a SuperUser. But when a test localuser with resource-admin logs in, it shows as root. So does this exceed his privileges to SuperUser ??? Please clarify.

login as: test
Using keyboard-interactive authentication.
Password:
Last login: Wed Oct 8 02:31:44 2014 from 192.168.12.206
[root@2000-1:Active:Standalone] ~ 
[root@2000-1:Active:Standalone] ~  tmsh
test@(2000-1)(cfg-sync Standalone)(Active)(/Common)(tmos)
LTM
security
TMSH

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  • jaikumar_f5's avatar
    jaikumar_f5
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    Jul 28, 2017

    Thanks, I have figured out this.

     

    Tried changing the password post login and it changed the root password.