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swo0sh_gt_13163
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Nov 19, 2013

Role based access of specific Unix like commands?

Hello Folks,   Is there a way in BIG-IP where we can configure a user with specific command privileges rather than allowing all? For eg. the user should be able to execute "cat" command in order t...
role based user access
TMSH
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Kevin_Stewart
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Nov 20, 2013

Suppose we assign user role and TMSH access, does it mean user would be able to run "!/bin/bash" command and then run the "cat" command? Would this be a read only access?

 

I believe an administrative user would be the only type that can access Bash from within TMSH. All other roles with TMSH access would get the limited set of TMSH "wrapped" Bash commands.