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Marcel_Kuiper_5
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Jun 22, 2007

Adding users on 9.1.2

Hi,     Since we're changing account names I need to create a lot of users on all of our BigIP systems. However my perl scripting is not succesful so far which has probably to do with the way I ...
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Joe_Pruitt
Feb 22, 2008
Actually, From what I can tell, the The GUI just changes the login shell depending on what you have selected for Console Access

 

 

Disabled => /bin/false

 

Advanced Shell => /bin/bash

 

bigpipe Shell => /bin/bpsh

 

 

 

The following PowerShell code should work for setting the shell

 

 

$ic = Get-F5.iControl
$um = $ic.ManagementUserManagement
$um.set_login_shell( (,"joeuser"), (,"/bin/false") )

 

 

This should disable console access for user "joeuser".

 

 

-Joe