topic Re: Splunk for Twitter authentication error in Security

Splunk for Twitter authentication error

Blu3fish — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 00:28:39 GMT

Downloaded the Twitter app over the weekend on a splunkbeta instance I have running and all went well but when I tried installing the app on my 4.1.5 and 4.1.6 instances I ran into a configuration error where it is no longer allowing me to enter my splunk credentials.

As expected splunkd.log has a lot of the following messages:

ERROR ExecProcessor - message from "python /Applications/splunk/etc/apps/twitter/bin/splunk_twitter_streamer.py" Could not get Twitter credentials from splunk. Error: [HTTP 500] Splunkd internal error; [{'text': "In handler 'passwords': Admin handler 'passwords' not found.", 'code': None, 'type': 'ERROR'}]

Anyone else experiencing this? Anyone know of a workaround? Any help is appreciated.

Re: Splunk for Twitter authentication error

Blu3fish — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 09:21:51 GMT

Editing $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps/twitter/bin/verify_password.py and plugging in my credentials:
username = ''
password = ''
also has no effect.
Running $SPLUNK_HOME/bin/python $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps/twitter/bin/verify_password.py returns "--status=success" though nothing is being splunked. Curiouser and curiouser.
If anyone knows of another way of manually entering your creds let me know.

Re: Splunk for Twitter authentication error

th0i3 — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 13:08:48 GMT

did you get this working in the end?

Re: Splunk for Twitter authentication error

nawneel — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 06:44:57 GMT

please someone do something about it..i am also facing the same error!!

Re: Splunk for Twitter authentication error

marcoscala — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 12:29:45 GMT

Those are the errors I got instead: (Splunk 4.3.4 running on Mac OSX 10.7.4):

09-22-2012 11:42:06.218 +0200 WARN SetupAdminHandler - Cannot find entity=''
09-22-2012 11:42:06.218 +0200 WARN SetupAdminHandler - Cannot find field='name' in url='/admin/passwords/_new/' setting value to empty string
09-22-2012 11:42:08.997 +0200 INFO ExecProcessor - Ran script: python /usr/local/splunk/etc/apps/twitter/bin/splunk_twitter_streamer.py, took 265.2 milliseconds to run, 0
bytes read, exited with code 1
09-22-2012 11:42:08.997 +0200 ERROR ExecProcessor - message from "python /usr/local/splunk/etc/apps/twitter/bin/splunk_twitter_streamer.py" Could not get Twitter credential
s from splunk. Error: No credentials supplied, please complete the Twitter app setup
09-22-2012 11:42:14.983 +0200 WARN SetupAdminHandler - Cannot find entity=''
09-22-2012 11:42:14.983 +0200 WARN SetupAdminHandler - Cannot find field='name' in url='/admin/passwords/_new/' setting value to empty string
09-22-2012 11:42:15.014 +0200 WARN SetupAdminHandler - Cannot find entity=''
09-22-2012 11:42:15.015 +0200 WARN SetupAdminHandler - Cannot find field='name' in url='/admin/passwords/_new/' setting value to empty string
09-22-2012 11:42:15.094 +0200 INFO ExecProcessor - New scheduled exec process: python /usr/local/splunk/etc/apps/twitter/bin/splunk_twitter_streamer.py
09-22-2012 11:42:15.094 +0200 INFO ExecProcessor - interval: 30000 ms
09-22-2012 11:42:15.116 +0200 WARN SetupAdminHandler - Cannot find entity=''
09-22-2012 11:42:15.116 +0200 WARN SetupAdminHandler - Cannot find field='name' in url='/admin/passwords/_new/' setting value to empty string
09-22-2012 11:42:32.850 +0200 WARN SetupAdminHandler - Cannot find entity=''
09-22-2012 11:42:32.851 +0200 WARN SetupAdminHandler - Cannot find field='name' in url='/admin/passwords/_new/' setting value to empty string
09-22-2012 11:42:32.882 +0200 WARN SetupAdminHandler - Cannot find entity=''
09-22-2012 11:42:32.882 +0200 WARN SetupAdminHandler - Cannot find field='name' in url='/admin/passwords/_new/' setting value to empty string
09-22-2012 11:42:38.997 +0200 INFO ExecProcessor - Ran script: python /usr/local/splunk/etc/apps/twitter/bin/splunk_twitter_streamer.py, took 265.4 milliseconds to run, 0
bytes read, exited with code 1
09-22-2012 11:42:38.998 +0200 ERROR ExecProcessor - message from "python /usr/local/splunk/etc/apps/twitter/bin/splunk_twitter_streamer.py" Could not get Twitter credential
s from splunk. Error: No credentials supplied, please complete the Twitter app setup

Re: Splunk for Twitter authentication error

amiracle — Mon, 15 Jul 2013 16:09:18 GMT

I figured out a way to get the twitter app to work with the Splunk Modular REST API. Here is a link to the fix.

http://splunk-base.splunk.com/answers/58689/issue-with-twitter-app-installation?page=1&focusedAnswerId=95233#95233