Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023
Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP MA-VE
Known Affected Versions:
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 HF1, 11.5.3 HF1, 11.5.3 HF2, 11.5.4 HF1, 11.5.4 HF2, 11.5.4 HF3, 11.5.4 HF4
Fixed In:
11.6.0 HF4
Opened: Sep 02, 2014 Severity: 3-Major
Amazon's recent requirement was to disable ssh access for root account. All the management on the AWS instance should be done through different account using ssh.
There will be no root access for VMs from next Amazon Market release. The replacement is admin account. All management functionality will be available by ssh-in using admin account.
Amazon AWS environment.
None
F5 disabled ssh for root account for VMs in Amazon cloud (after Amazon mandated it). F5 enabled ssh permissions for built-in admin account. The default shell for admin account is tmsh (instead of bash). On all new Amazon deployments all management tasks should be done through admin account.
There will be no root access for VMs from next Amazon Market release. The replacement is admin account. All management functionality will be available by ssh-in using admin account.