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Zdenda
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Nov 04, 2013

publishing powershell scripts to customer

Hello, what tricks you usually do to publish your scripts for customer use. Customer has access to server hosting PS scritpts and is supposed to run some commands by himself. Problem is that script c...
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mhite_60883
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Nov 05, 2013

It's a common problem and I don't think there is a straight forward answer.

 

What we do is create partitions for 'customers' and create credentials which allow administration of only their partition. This at least isolates the customer to some degree and limits the damage they could potentially do.

 

My 'wish' would be for F5 to allow us to create users that had API only access. Extra credit for allowing us to define what API calls are permitted for said user. Today this does not exist.