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sandy16
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Feb 13, 2013

disabling the admin and root accounts.

Hi, we are on ver 11.2 and we have a PCI audit requirement to disable the local admin account on our network devices wherever we can. We only want to use remote LDAP authentication. Is there a way t...
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matbel_119218
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Jun 04, 2014

You can disable the admin user:

1, Log in to the BIG-IP command line as the root user.

2, Disable the administrative user by typing the following command:

    userdel admin

3, To verify that the user has been disabled, you can view if the administrative user no longer exists in the /etc/passwd file:

    grep ^admin: /etc/passwd

If the administrative user has been disabled, no command output will exist.

http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/14000/900/sol14943.html