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JWhitesPro_1928
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Feb 27, 2018
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Management login via ldap broke on several devices at the same time

Strange issue...I have several F5 devices and they can connect to, communicate with, and see the LDAP servers....however all of these separate devices broke when authenticating to the management inte...
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    JWhitesPro_1928
    Feb 27, 2018

    Ok...for anyone who runs across this I found that if I deleted the 'userCertificate' attribute value on my active directory account it allowed me to login...I never used this for anything so the impact to me was minimal (it was an encrypting file system certificate that was NOT expired and had been there a while)...I will have to research with support why that caused the issue

     

    For whatever reason this was not an issue on 11.5.3 but 13.0 and 13.1 and 13.1.0.3 it wa

     

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JWhitesPro_1928
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Feb 27, 2018

Upon further investigation it appears other users can still login...but just not my account...when SSL is enabled...when it's disabled I can login...when it's enabled only other users can log in.