Demystifying iControl REST Part 6: Token-Based Authentication

iControl REST. It’s iControl SOAP’s baby, brother, introduced back in TMOS version 11.4 as an early access feature but released fully in version 11.5. Several articles on basic usage have been writ...
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Aug 11, 2017

Finally I was able to run token based auth with big-ip 11.6.1 and ldap auth provider. I found the login provider reference while I was playing with 

restcurl cm | grep providers | tail -1
and then simply changed the tailing user-group to login:

example:

"loginReference":{"link": "https://localhost/mgmt/cm/system/authn/providers/tmos/1f44a60e-11a7-3c51-a49f-82983026b41b/login"}

Hope this works for others aswell.