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SanYang
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Jan 05, 2024
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AD Authentication and Local DB Authentication in APM

Hello, I've been practicing LAB for APM lately. Here is my structure. I found that I can successfully log in with my AD account without any problems! However, when I try to log in using a...
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  • yakai's avatar
    yakai
    Jan 05, 2024

    Hi SanYang 

    Indeed, the AD retries 3 times before falling back to localDB.

    You can control this behaviour by simply modifiying Max Logon Attempts to allow just one attempt

    Let me know if it works

     

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SanYang
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Jan 05, 2024

Hi yakai ,

Thanks for your reply.
Here is my AD Auth and LocalDB auth Setting

 

When I login with local DB account, it fails.

I realized that F5 didn't go through the Local DB authentication process after it thought my AD authentication failed...

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yakai
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Jan 05, 2024

Hi SanYang 

Indeed, the AD retries 3 times before falling back to localDB.

You can control this behaviour by simply modifiying Max Logon Attempts to allow just one attempt

Let me know if it works

 

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    SanYang
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    Jan 06, 2024

    Hi yakai ,

    Thanks for your help.
    It's work.