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Yvonne_132607
Nimbostratus
Jan 16, 2015AWS BigIP VE SSH root login failure
Hello everyone,
I'm following the guide to spin up a F5 BigIP virtual appliance on an EC2 instance listed on the F5/AWS documentation page. I've launched the appliance and according to the steps...
Yvonne_132607
Nimbostratus
Jan 19, 2015Yep, you need to use "admin" not "root. I had the SSH key added to my keychain so in reality it should be:
$ ssh -i sshkey.pem admin@ip
Thanks for you help What Lies Beneath!
- What_Lies_Bene1Jan 19, 2015
Cirrostratus
Thanks for the confirmation, must make a note of that. I'm sure I've not had the same issue but its been a while. You're welcome. - LandonoJan 19, 2015
Nimbostratus
Thanks for this Yvonne, I was having this problem all last week as well. This is incorrect in all of the F5 documentation, even the 11.6.0 guide which is the most recent.
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