topic Re: Get current user (and their roles) from SplunkJS in Security

Get current user (and their roles) from SplunkJS

rmearkle — Tue, 28 Jul 2015 13:00:52 GMT

I am creating a custom dashboard that will be distributed to a wide range of people with varying levels of access. I have found this code to get the current user:

require([ 'underscore', 'jquery', 'splunkjs/mvc', ],
       function(_, $, mvc ) {        
          var tokens = mvc.Components.getInstance("default");       
          var current=Splunk.util.getConfigValue("USERNAME");        
          tokens.set("currentuser", current);
       });

I also need to be able to get user roles, so that I can dynamically set properties in my D3 chart on this dashboard.

The only alternative I have found is creating what could become dozens of different dashboards with set permissions, which is not really acceptable as there will be so many different tiers under different branches.

Re: Get current user (and their roles) from SplunkJS

rmearkle — Tue, 28 Jul 2015 18:59:10 GMT

Well, answered my own question. Using the REST function I was able to get the roles and parse them inside my Javascript.

var userSearch = new SearchManager({
                    "id": "userSearch",
                    "preview": "false",
                    "cache": "false",
                    "search": "|rest splunk_server=local /services/authentication/current-context |table roles |mvexpand roles"
                }, {tokens: false});


    userSearch.startSearch();
    var roleSearchResults = userSearch.data('results');
    roleSearchResults.on("data", function() {   
        var userRoles = roleSearchResults.data().rows;          
        for(var i=0; i<userRoles.length; i++){
            console.log(userRoles[i][0]);               
        }

    });

This code will log the string values of all the roles for the current user to the console.

Re: Get current user (and their roles) from SplunkJS

krishnarajapant — Thu, 01 Oct 2015 16:02:26 GMT

Hi rmearkle,

I have similar kind of requirement.

How can we call this entire code in a function?

How can use this code to restrict few inputs buttons as invisible?

-Krishna Rajapantula

Re: Get current user (and their roles) from SplunkJS

loggar — Thu, 30 Jun 2016 10:15:43 GMT

It can be done much easier...

                    var service = mvc.createService();
                service.currentUser(function(err, user) {
                    //user real name
                    real_name = user.properties().realname

                    //user name
                    usr = user.name

                    //user roles
                    roles = user.properties().roles
                });