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Almassud_221797
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Nov 13, 2015

Active Directory Authenitcation

Hi all,   could anyone provide a step-by-step instruction on how to setup F5 to authenticate against active directory? I found so many SOL, but so far they are helping all that much, so if it's s...
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R_Marc
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Nov 13, 2015
create auth ldap system-auth { bind-dn "cn=bindaccount,ou=Service Accounts,ou=Some Users" bind-pw bindpw login-attribute samaccountname port ldaps search-base-dn "ou=Some Users" servers add { adserver } ssl enabled ssl-ca-cert-file CA.crt user-template %s@somedomain }
modify /auth remote-role role-info add { Admin { attribute "memberOf=CN=administrator,OU=SomeOU Groups" console tmsh line-order 500 role administrator user-partition All } }
modify /auth source { type active-directory }

This assumes you have a valid AD bind account and you have the DN of the remote role. You can look the roles up using AD tools.