Last Modified: Aug 19, 2026
Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP APM
Known Affected Versions:
11.5.1, 11.5.1 hf1, 11.5.1 hf2, 11.5.1 hf3, 11.5.1 hf4, 11.5.1 hf5, 11.5.1 hf6, 11.5.1 hf7, 11.5.1 hf8, 11.5.1 hf9, 11.5.1 hf10, 11.5.1 hf11, 11.5.2, 11.5.2 hf1, 11.5.3, 11.5.3 hf1, 11.5.3 hf2, 11.5.4, 11.5.4 hf1, 11.5.4 hf2, 11.5.4 hf3, 11.5.4 hf4, 11.5.5, 11.5.6, 11.5.7, 11.5.8, 11.5.9, 11.5.10
Fixed In:
11.6.0
Opened: Dec 19, 2013 Severity: 3-Major Related Article:
K15370
When adding a user to a local user database, you cannot complete the configuration if you type an email address in the User Name field.
User name can not be have special character ".".
While using e-mail as user name (e.g name@f5.com), the string containing the special character period (.) prevents creating user with name as e-mail.
Do not use "." in the user name field.
The special character "." can now be used for a user name.