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NimbostratusCan somebody give me an advise on how to change admin/root password in an automatic NON-INTERACTIVE way?
Can somebody give me an advise on how to change admin/root password in an automatic NON-INTERACTIVE way?
like the below command... tmsh modify auth user admin password
need to find the command for multiple versions.
thanks in advance
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What_Lies_Bene1Cirrostratus
I've no experience with it but perhaps this could be done with iControl?
Take a look at the Management.UserManagement interface in iControl.
https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/iControl.Management__UserManagement.ashx
You could build a script with Perl/Powershell/Python or compile an app with Java/.Net/etc.
-Joe
I've also done this with a shell pipeline by feeding tmsh via stdin the desired password twice separated by a newline. It's a little kludgy, but it works. Basic formula would be:
echo -en "foo\nfoo\n" | tmsh modify auth password root
Mareeswaran_133Hi Brent... Even i developed a EXPECT script, and i'm feeding through HPNA. getting an error like Details: Cannot run program "sh" (in directory "/apps/rendition/server/ext/expect"): error=12, Not enough space can you please help me to overcome this error- I'm not familiar with HPNA so I can't be much help there. I'll try though: why are you using "expect" rather than the simpler solution that I included before? If you setup ssh keys, you can connect to BIG-IP and run commands without passwords - and since the command that I listed is pretty simple "expect" isn't doing much for you. The error about disk space is a bit troubling - I assume that's referring to the system hosting HPNA. Maybe it's not the cause of the expect failure, but I'd take care of that before moving on.
- Mareeswaran_133
thank you all for your suggestions..
