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pwilson33
Altostratus
Jun 23, 2025Credentialed Scanning - F5OS - Rseries
After solving the remote authentication issue previously with F5OS. My next question is related to credentialed scanning on R series appliances running F5OS. The tenable agent logs in via SSH and...
Jeffrey_Granier
Employee
Sep 19, 2025Hello,
F5OS rSeries appliances the challenge is the restricted access to the bash shell for remote users. Have you tried to create a dedicated user account with advanced shell access enabled. Use the F5OS CLI command: system aaa authentication users user config shell bash role admin.
Ensure appliance mode is disabled if it's blocking shell access, as it disables root and bash for security. This may allow Tenable to run its authenticated scans
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