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jsgibbs1
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May 31, 2018

Different Password Policies

Is there a way to have different password polices for user accounts?   I am using local auth and need admin user accounts to expire after a certain amount of time. However, I also have service ac...
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Leonardo_Souza
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May 31, 2018

https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K15497

 

"When you have configured policy restrictions using the Configuration utility, policy restrictions apply to all user accounts"

 

After reading this, my question was if was possible via tmsh, because they specified Configuration Utility.

 

However, I don't see any difference in tmsh, so I'm assuming is the same as GUI.

 

So, you can't do this if you use local authentication.

 

You can use a remote authentication and setup the users in the authentication server. Admin/root will always be local.