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dfosborne2_2224
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Jun 23, 2014

Create users for BigIP via REST

Can user accounts be created via REST in BigIP LTM? If so, could someone provide the syntax? Ive dug around and around the API and cannot find it. Assumed either mgmt/tm/ltm/auth or mgmt/tm/sys/ wou...
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MichaelatF5
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Nov 03, 2015

To get this to work in v12, I had to take an extra step.

$jsonuser = @"
    {
        "name": "xadmin",
        "password": "pass@word1",
        "role": "admin",
        "shell": "tmsh",
        "partitionaccess": [ {
            "name": "all-partitions",
            "role": "admin"
            }
        ]
    }
    "@

$rolejson = @"
{
"partitionAccess": [
{
"name": "all-partitions",
"role": "admin"
}
]
}
"@

I could set partition with a POST, but not ROLE. So I had to use the following:

curl -sk -u "admin:admin" 'https://10.0.0.5/mgmt/tm/auth/user' -X POST -d $o -H "Content-Type: application/json"
` 

curl -sk -u "admin:admin" 'https://10.0.0.5/mgmt/tm/auth/user/xadmin' -X PATCH -d $rolejson -H "Content-Type: application/json"