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Techgeeeg_28888
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Dec 05, 2013

External Users Authentication & on box authentication

Hi Guys, If I have configured my F5 box to use TACAS server for user authentication what will happen to the users locally created on the box will it work or not? Also if my TACAS Server fails what wi...
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Brian_Saunders1
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Dec 05, 2013

We use Cisco ACS as our authentication server and have our F5's configured for radius authentication and a remote role configured on the F5's that is returned by the radius server (this way we don't have to configure users on the F5's).

 

Any accounts other than root or admin will attempt to use the remote authentication method that is configured, even if it's down. So in the event that your authentication servers fail only the root or admin accounts will be able to log into the F5.