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Bryan_T_'s avatar
Bryan_T_
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Mar 29, 2018

new local user while using tacacs auth

My BigIP is using tacacs authentication, but I also have the need to make a new local user with admin access. With tacacs enabled the password box when you create a new user is gone. Is there a way to create a new local user with tacacs authentication configured?

 

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  • jaikumar_f5's avatar
    jaikumar_f5
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    Mar 31, 2018

    Hi Elanders,

    You gotta create it from the CLI,

    Step:1

    create auth user testuser1 shell bash role admin prompt-for-password
changing password for testuser1
new password:
confirm password:

    Since you say you need a local user, you gotta put this user in the localusers file to force the box to authenticate locally instead of tacacs based authentication.

    Step : 2

    echo "testuser1" >> /config/bigip/auth/localusers

    Post which try with the account, it should work.