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Cynthia_18735
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Mar 07, 2008

SSH no longer works with Perl script after upgrading BigIP's to newer hardware/software

I have an iControl script, that I also do connection to using SSH. I can logon via Putty using SSH to the LTM; however, using the following code results in a permission denied error. This same scri...
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DennisJann
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Mar 08, 2008
Do you have Remote Authentication enabled? I had a similar problem after upgrading our LTMs from 9.1.x to 9.3.1.

 

 

We use RADIUS for Remote Authentication for adminstrator access via ssh and https, but had created a local account for use by a Perl management script using one of the Linux commands. The local Unix account no longer worked after upgrading to 9.3, so we had to create a RADIUS account for the management script, and add it to the LTM using the f5adduser command.