topic What is the best way to add users to the search head cluster? in Deployment Architecture https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/What-is-the-best-way-to-add-users-to-the-search-head-cluster/m-p/264023#M10035 <P>Hi,<BR /> We are running Splunk 6.3.3. Our search head cluster (4 search heads at the moment) is using SAML authentication.<BR /> We are looking for a way to add an user with Splunk authentication without adding it on each search head separately. </P> <P>Any ideas will be appreciated!<BR /> Thanks </P> Tue, 18 Oct 2016 16:25:27 GMT mlevsh 2016-10-18T16:25:27Z What is the best way to add users to the search head cluster? https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/What-is-the-best-way-to-add-users-to-the-search-head-cluster/m-p/264023#M10035 <P>Hi,<BR /> We are running Splunk 6.3.3. Our search head cluster (4 search heads at the moment) is using SAML authentication.<BR /> We are looking for a way to add an user with Splunk authentication without adding it on each search head separately. </P> <P>Any ideas will be appreciated!<BR /> Thanks </P> Tue, 18 Oct 2016 16:25:27 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/What-is-the-best-way-to-add-users-to-the-search-head-cluster/m-p/264023#M10035 mlevsh 2016-10-18T16:25:27Z Re: What is the best way to add users to the search head cluster? https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/What-is-the-best-way-to-add-users-to-the-search-head-cluster/m-p/264024#M10036 <P>There is no way in 6.3.3 to have the changes replicate. You'll need to run the <CODE>splunk add user</CODE> command on each search head.</P> <P><A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.3.3/DistSearch/AdduserstotheSHC">http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.3.3/DistSearch/AdduserstotheSHC</A></P> Tue, 18 Oct 2016 19:23:05 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/What-is-the-best-way-to-add-users-to-the-search-head-cluster/m-p/264024#M10036 cdoebert 2016-10-18T19:23:05Z Re: What is the best way to add users to the search head cluster? https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/What-is-the-best-way-to-add-users-to-the-search-head-cluster/m-p/264025#M10037 <P>@cdoebert, actually there is a way to replicate - if shared secret is the same between servers (in our case there is) we can copy $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/passwd file that has a new user created to other servers , restart splunk on servers with just copied file. Make sure to backup </P> Thu, 23 Feb 2017 21:09:07 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/What-is-the-best-way-to-add-users-to-the-search-head-cluster/m-p/264025#M10037 mlevsh 2017-02-23T21:09:07Z