https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/splunk-LDAP-connection/m-p/289155#M87505 <P>hi,</P> <P>Can someone please explain me how to splunk communicates with LDAP . Will splunk stores the user data in its cache so that it don't have to check with LDAP everytime ?</P> Thu, 11 May 2017 20:17:11 GMT kteng2024 2017-05-11T20:17:11Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/splunk-LDAP-connection/m-p/289155#M87505 <P>hi,</P> <P>Can someone please explain me how to splunk communicates with LDAP . Will splunk stores the user data in its cache so that it don't have to check with LDAP everytime ?</P> Thu, 11 May 2017 20:17:11 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/splunk-LDAP-connection/m-p/289155#M87505 kteng2024 2017-05-11T20:17:11Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/splunk-LDAP-connection/m-p/289156#M87506 <P>Hi kteng2024,</P> <P>The password will be verified against the LDAP service provider each time the user logins in. Splunk does not cache the password for the user, but it keeps other user data from the LDAP provider. See the attached screen shot which shows the information Splunk keeps about a user until Splunk restarts:</P> <P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper" image-alt="alt text"><img src="https://community.splunk.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/2916iDA7E20E2A98D11E2/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="alt text" alt="alt text" /></span><BR /> In this case it is <STRONG>Full Name</STRONG> and <STRONG>Email Address</STRONG>.</P> <P>Hope this answers your questions ...</P> <P>cheers, MuS </P> Thu, 11 May 2017 22:05:37 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/splunk-LDAP-connection/m-p/289156#M87506 MuS 2017-05-11T22:05:37Z