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NimbostratusSticky icontrol authentication
Consider the following script
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ltm_auth.py
import pycontrol.pycontrol as pc
import sys
host = sys.argv[1]
user = sys.argv[2]
passwd = sys.argv[3]
try:
ltm = pc.BIGIP(hostname = host, username = user, password = passwd, fromurl = True, wsdls = ['LocalLB.Pool'])
print "Auth Passed"
except Exception, e:
print e
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If I run the script first using correct credentials all subsoquent authentication attempts pass.
user$ python ltm_auth.py ltm.lab.com testuser CorrectPassword1
Auth Passed
user$ python ltm_auth.py ltm.lab.com testuser badpassword2
Auth Passed
user$ python ltm_auth.py ltm.lab.com testuser test
Auth Passed
user$ python ltm_auth.py ltm.lab.com testuser CorrectPassword1
Auth Passed
user$ python ltm_auth.py ltm.lab.com testuser blarg
Auth Passed
user$ python ltm_auth.py ltm.lab.com testuser billy
Auth Passed
user$ python ltm_auth.py ltm.lab.com testuser billy
Auth Passed
user$ python ltm_auth.py ltm.lab.com testuser billy
Auth Passed
If I run the script the first time with bad credentials all subsoquent connections fail.
user$ python ltm_auth.py ltm.lab.com testuser billy
HTTP Error 401: basic auth failed
user$ python ltm_auth.py ltm.lab.com testuser CorrectPassword1
HTTP Error 401: basic auth failed
What is going on here?
1 Reply
JH_124575I haven't looked at the pycontrol code, but I assume it is somewhat similar to bigsuds. In the initial BIGIP object creation you are not actually creating the ZSI soap client until you call a service. If you add a arbitrary service call inside of your try/except you will get the 401 error you are looking for.
import bigsuds b = bigsuds.BIGIP(hostname = '7.200.68.5', username='admin', password='this is wrong') """ This will return a BIGIP Object """ print b """This will error due to an invalid password """ try: print b.LocalLB.Pool.get_list() except bigsuds.ConnectionError: raise
