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Sharing User Credentials Between SAML IDP and SP Policies in F5 APM

  Use Case In an F5 Access Policy Manager (APM) deployment with one Identity Provider (IDP) and multiple Service Providers (SPs), it’s often necessary for an SP policy to access user credentials (e...
Published Apr 06, 2025
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May 19, 2025

Is this applicable to F5 LTM as well or is this only specific to F5 APM?

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    May 19, 2025

    This is actually intended to enable user credential-based SSO within SAML SP policies — which, by default, is a feature of APM.

    LTM, on the other hand, doesn't provide access management capabilities, so I'm not sure how such an approach would work in that context.

    Did you have a specific use case or scenario in mind?