topic Re: Splunkd access capability in Security

Splunkd access capability

pkeller — Tue, 06 Jun 2017 15:34:40 GMT

Is there a capability that can be removed from a role that will remove the ability to run a remote search via the Splunkd port and force the user to use the UI?

Re: Splunkd access capability

pradeepkumarg — Wed, 07 Jun 2017 17:37:26 GMT

You mean restricting rest API calls is it? Unfortunately there is not one. We correlate the splunk web access logs and the audit logs to identify if there are searches without user logs on web access and alert on it to identify rest users. May be there is a better way.

Re: Splunkd access capability

somesoni2 — Wed, 07 Jun 2017 17:46:22 GMT

Have not tested but this looks promising. You may have to define custom capability to assign to search REST endpoint.
https://answers.splunk.com/answers/423859/how-do-you-disable-the-rest-api-endpoint-servicess.html

Check the $Splunk_home/etc/system/default/restmap.conf for full list of available endpoints.

Re: Splunkd access capability

teunlaan — Thu, 08 Jun 2017 12:29:35 GMT

Splunk itself is also getting information by REST call to other machines, so please be carful trying disableing stuff

Re: Splunkd access capability

pkeller — Thu, 08 Jun 2017 14:12:05 GMT

Thank you very much.

Re: Splunkd access capability

pkeller — Thu, 08 Jun 2017 14:13:59 GMT

Ultimately I determined that 2 factor authentication will, by nature, prevent this. So, we have that nailed. And, if we need to bypass that for strong use cases, we can set up local users.