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Thrillseeker_12
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Oct 07, 2013

TACACS Auth with Remote Role Groups --> Terminal Access

Hi,   For one of our customers I recently setup up TACACS Auth with Remote Role Groups. The setup works very good far. But when I tried to define something other (e.g. /bin/bash) than TMSH in ...
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Oct 08, 2013

What Lies Beneath is correct - You can only get direct to the BASH shell if a local user is added on the F5, which does rather negate the remote authentication side. I believe this is due to the way *nix works (somebody more qualified in *nix will be able to explain it better).

 

I had the same issue and, like Cory, had to advise the users to perform the "run /util bash" command. Not that much of a hardship really!