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epaalx
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Aug 18, 2011

Creating local users when using Remote Authentication

Hi F5'ers,   I'd like to provision (some) local users even though Remote Authentication (using Radius) is provisioned.   F5 removed f5adduser (in 10.1.0), so, what's the sanctioned alternative? ...
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Enes_Afsin_Al's avatar
Enes_Afsin_Al
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Hi Willy,

  • Enable "Fallback to Local" (System » Users » Authentication)
  • Create a user (System » Users » User List)
  • Run the below command:
echo "username" >> /config/bigip/auth/localusers
sed -ri 's/(localonlyusers LT_STRING_LIST.*)"/\1 \\{username\\}"/' /etc/confpp.dat
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Stefan_Klotz
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Apr 08, 2021

Hi Enes,

these two commands work perfectly on our system.

But I noticed today (some weeks after implementation), that login with this local user is not possible anymore. I found out, that the changes to your mentioned files were gone. Are these settings maybe not reboot-safe or gets lost during a software update?

Can you please share some details here and is it possible to have these settings persistent?

Thank you!

 

Ciao Stefan :)