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epaalx
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Aug 18, 2011

Creating local users when using Remote Authentication

Hi F5'ers,   I'd like to provision (some) local users even though Remote Authentication (using Radius) is provisioned.   F5 removed f5adduser (in 10.1.0), so, what's the sanctioned alternative? ...
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Enes_Afsin_Al's avatar
Enes_Afsin_Al
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Nov 14, 2019

Hi Willy,

  • Enable "Fallback to Local" (System » Users » Authentication)
  • Create a user (System » Users » User List)
  • Run the below command:
echo "username" >> /config/bigip/auth/localusers
sed -ri 's/(localonlyusers LT_STRING_LIST.*)"/\1 \\{username\\}"/' /etc/confpp.dat
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Stefan_Klotz
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Apr 29, 2021

Hi Enes,

sorry to bother you again, but this manual configurations gets lost even without touching or rebooting the BIG-IP. I had to re-enter both commands now twice within the last two days!

Any idea, which internal process removes this again? Is automated scripting (via cronjob) the only solution to have these entries permanent?

Thank you!

 

Ciao Stefan :)