topic Re: Disabling login screen in Security

Disabling login screen

nina15 — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 04:01:29 GMT

Is it possible to disable the login screen in splunk??

Re: Disabling login screen

gkanapathy — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 06:45:56 GMT

The free version does not have a login screen. The enterprise and trial versions require authentication. However, authentication can occur if either (a) you place it behind an appropriately configured proxy and enable SSO mode, or (b) you use the "insecurelogin" URL and pass the ID and password of a user in the URL. http://splunk-base.splunk.com/answers/4851/how-to-view-reports-link-without-providing-login-credentials

Re: Disabling login screen

lenafried — Thu, 21 Aug 2014 16:15:29 GMT

Yesterday I downloaded what I assumed was the free 60-day trial version and opened and used it several times without having to log in after the first time. Today, the login screen is displayed and, to my horror, I forgot the name and password. What do I do? I thought the login screen is not needed for the free version. If a login is needed how do I reset the name and password or work around it?

Re: Disabling login screen

ChrisG — Thu, 21 Aug 2014 18:14:33 GMT

If you did not reset the user name and password, then they are still the default: admin/changeme.

Re: Disabling login screen

lenafried — Thu, 21 Aug 2014 18:32:25 GMT

I did reset them.

Re: Disabling login screen

ChrisG — Thu, 21 Aug 2014 18:41:29 GMT

If you have access to the file system, you can back up the password file and restart Splunk Enterprise. Then you will be back to admin/changeme. See http://answers.splunk.com/answers/834/how-could-i-reset-the-admin-password.

Re: Disabling login screen

gregavan — Mon, 10 Aug 2015 16:33:50 GMT

I hacked Splunk/SSO to let users auto-login as the "splunk" user using the following Apache config (you'll need to ensure that this user exists on your Splunk instance).

Listen 8989
<VirtualHost *:8989>
  <Proxy http://127.0.0.1:8989/*>;
      Allow from all
   </Proxy>
   <LocationMatch "/">
      ProxyPass http://127.0.0.1:8000/
      ProxyPassReverse http://127.0.0.1:8000/
      Header add REMOTE_USER "splunk"
      RequestHeader set REMOTE_USER "splunk"
   </LocationMatch>
</VirtualHost>

Then in Settings > Server Settings > General Settings set "SSO Trusted IP" to 127.0.0.1