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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 t...
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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.