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romolo82
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Sep 30, 2025
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Bash shell and ping command on F5 rseries

Hi, I need to use command ping on F5 rSeries. I undarstand that ping command is not availible on F5OS, but with local credentials I annnot to switch from F5OS to bash Linux shell. Do you know how I...
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  • Injeyan_Kostas's avatar
    Injeyan_Kostas
    Sep 30, 2025

    If you are logged in with admin account you cannot access bash
    Try ssh with root

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Panchanka
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Jan 08, 2026

https://techdocs.f5.com/en-us/velos-1-8-1/velos-systems-administration-configuration/title-network-settings.html

The ‘shell’ option allows you to execute network diagnostics commands from the shell without going back to the original prompt. It provides an interactive interface to execute multiple commands.

I guess for the time being bash is only accessible with the root account, but then why does 

https://techdocs.f5.com/en-us/f5os-a-1-8-0/f5-rseries-systems-administration-configuration/title-auth-access.html#auth-access-webui

state: 

superuser

This role provides root access privileges and bash access to the system, allowing users with the superuser role to execute commands from bash shell. To get the bash shell, users must set the 'superuser-bash-access' flag in ConfD to 'true' and turn off the appliance mode

 

and an example of a secondary role with the superuser GID?

 

radius_user Cleartext-Password := test 

F5-F5OS-UID := 1001,

F5-F5OS-GID := 9000,

 F5-F5OS-SECONDARYGIDS := “9004”,

F5-F5OS-HOMEDIR := "/tmp",

 F5-F5OS-SHELL := "/var/lib/controller/f5_confd_cli"