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Vinne73's avatar
Vinne73
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Jan 23, 2018

LTM 13.x iControlREST with non admin accounts: 401 Authorization failed

Hi,   I found info about this problem on previous software releases, and being or not being able to use non admin accounts with iControl. However, I'm running LTM 13.0.0.3.   I've created a use...
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Satoshi_Toyosa1
Ret. Employee
Jan 24, 2018

Instead of using Basic Auth (sending an Based-64 encoded username/password in the HTTP Authorization header), please try Token-Based authentication.

  1. Get an authentication token by sending (

    POST
    ) the username/password to 
    /mgmt/shared/authn/login
    .

  2. Use that token in the 

    X-F5-Auth-Token
    header for any requests afterword.

The token times out after 1200s (20 min).

Please refer to "About iControl and authentication for user accounts" section (p. 20) of the iControl® REST API User Guide Version 13.0.