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Reload passwd - SOLVED

ben_leung — Tue, 12 Aug 2014 19:21:59 GMT

I want to replace the existing passwd file on indexers with a new file. The only way to accomplish this is to restart the indexer. There are summary indexing scheduled searches running almost every minute. No good time window to do a restart. Is there a REST API endpoint to reload the passwd file? Is there any way to put the passwd file in place without a restart?

Re: Reload passwd - SOLVED

somesoni2 — Tue, 12 Aug 2014 19:29:59 GMT

Not sure if this loads the passwd file, this Splunk refresh URL does refresh the authentication related changes without restart. Worth giving a try. Just launch

http://yoursplunkserver:8000/en-US/debug/refresh?entity=admin/auth-services

Re: Reload passwd - SOLVED

ben_leung — Tue, 12 Aug 2014 19:51:43 GMT

This worked! Although you have to sign in with an existing account in order to refresh. Thanks for this work around, no need to restart the indexers now.

Re: Reload passwd - SOLVED

ben_leung — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 17:19:05 GMT

Browsing through other answers:http://answers.splunk.com/answers/129654/how-to-i-trigger-reload-of-authentication-configuration-programmatically

./splunk _internal call /authentication/providers/services/_reload -auth

from command line is a step towards the direction to scripting my intended purpose..

Re: Reload passwd - SOLVED

richgalloway — Tue, 12 Aug 2014 20:57:12 GMT

For the benefit of future users searching for answers to a similar problem, please convert one of the comments to an answer and accept it.

Re: Reload passwd - SOLVED

martin_mueller — Tue, 12 Aug 2014 20:59:06 GMT

Already on it 🙂