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Renato1's avatar
Renato1
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Jun 28, 2019

Force TACACS log on

Hi all   I've enabled Tacacs on the F5 BIG-IP version 12.1 and all is working, but people can still login as root account if they know the username and password. With Cisco you can have a local ...
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Dario_Garrido
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Jun 28, 2019

Hello Renato.

 

admin/root account are the only users available to use local DB authentication (when TACACS/RADIUS/... is enabled)

 

You can avoid this situation performing this procedure:

https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K15632

 

KR,

Dario.