https://community.splunk.com/t5/Reporting/New-User-Welcome-Email/m-p/150599#M3329 <P>When I am creating a new user, is there a way to <BR /> 1) Send him a welcome email through splunk?<BR /> 2) Force him to change his password the first time he logs in (much list the admin user must do on the initial install)?</P> <P>I recently created 20 users and had to email each of them with their user name and a link to our splunk install. Then i had to strongly suggest they change the password I set for them, but I did not see a way to enforce that. </P> Fri, 02 May 2014 16:11:24 GMT aattinello 2014-05-02T16:11:24Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Reporting/New-User-Welcome-Email/m-p/150599#M3329 <P>When I am creating a new user, is there a way to <BR /> 1) Send him a welcome email through splunk?<BR /> 2) Force him to change his password the first time he logs in (much list the admin user must do on the initial install)?</P> <P>I recently created 20 users and had to email each of them with their user name and a link to our splunk install. Then i had to strongly suggest they change the password I set for them, but I did not see a way to enforce that. </P> Fri, 02 May 2014 16:11:24 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Reporting/New-User-Welcome-Email/m-p/150599#M3329 aattinello 2014-05-02T16:11:24Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Reporting/New-User-Welcome-Email/m-p/150600#M3330 <P>Nope, not in Splunk's native authentication. I suggest using LDAP instead; then you move password management to a system that is designed to do password management...</P> Fri, 02 May 2014 19:41:20 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Reporting/New-User-Welcome-Email/m-p/150600#M3330 lguinn2 2014-05-02T19:41:20Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Reporting/New-User-Welcome-Email/m-p/150601#M3331 <P>Thank you, does that go for "Splunk Cloud" as well?</P> Fri, 02 May 2014 19:55:58 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Reporting/New-User-Welcome-Email/m-p/150601#M3331 aattinello 2014-05-02T19:55:58Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Reporting/New-User-Welcome-Email/m-p/150602#M3332 <P>Yes, you can use LDAP with Splunk Cloud.</P> Fri, 02 May 2014 20:10:25 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Reporting/New-User-Welcome-Email/m-p/150602#M3332 lguinn2 2014-05-02T20:10:25Z