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dum0785
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May 17, 2021

Does BIG-IP have a root account lock when the password expires?

We log in to BIG-IP from the server with SSH and automatically execute a certain regular job.

At that time, the user is logged in with key authentication without using a password as root, but "Your password has expired. The server failed with the error log "Password change required but no TTY available."

Does BIG-IP have a root account lock when the password expires? And is there a workaround?

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  • Dario_Garrido's avatar
    Dario_Garrido
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    May 17, 2021

    Hello dum0785.

     

    Are you using external authentication to log into the F5 device?

    External accounts could be expiring. In that case, you should renew them in your external auth server.

     

    Regards,

    Dario.