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spencero_196690
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May 13, 2015

Access the REST api as user other than admin

I'm trying to figure out how to access the iControl REST API as a user other than the administrator. All the examples that I've found online look like this: 

curl -sk -u admin:admin https://dev.rest.box/mgmt/tm

According to this stack overflow post, it isn't easy to do authentication with the REST api.

Can I use the API as a user besides admin? I would like to use my LDAP account if possible.

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  • nitass_89166's avatar
    nitass_89166
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    May 14, 2015

    i understand it is available in 12.0.0 (not released yet).

     

    ID430681 - RFE: Add support for iControl/REST proxied namespaces to use BIG-IP PAM-based authZ

     

  • nitass's avatar
    nitass
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    May 14, 2015

    i understand it is available in 12.0.0 (not released yet).

     

    ID430681 - RFE: Add support for iControl/REST proxied namespaces to use BIG-IP PAM-based authZ

     

  • ekaleido's avatar
    ekaleido
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    Nov 15, 2016

    You can do non-admin API calls, but doing so requires generating an auth token first and then performing the actual "work" using the auth token instead of basic auth.

     

    This article does a decent job of explaining it.