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Why am I Not able access logs in splunk docker image?

icanwin
New Member

Whenever I am trying to login to splunk through docker image , the default user is ansible beacsue of that I am not able to access logs and var directory in splunk .
And not permitted to create a new directory too

kindly suggest.

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codebuilder
Influencer

You will need to update your makefile if building your own image, and set the Splunk user.
If using a Splunk supported image, set the Splunk user as a parameter in your run command (-e "SPLUNK_USER=splunk"), e.g.

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rxgampa
Loves-to-Learn

I added  SPLUNK_USER=splunk to the docker-compose yml file and restarted the container. 

Here is the environment. 

[ansible@28f74f55c15a splunk]$ env

LANG=C.utf8

HOSTNAME=28f74f55c15a

ANSIBLE_USER=ansible

SPLUNK_HEC_TOKEN=test1234

container=oci

SPLUNK_HOME=/opt/splunk

SCLOUD_URL=https://github.com/splunk/splunk-cloud-sdk-go/releases/download/v1.11.1/scloud_v7.1.0_linux_amd64.ta...

CONTAINER_ARTIFACT_DIR=/opt/container_artifact

PWD=/opt/splunk

HOME=/home/ansible

SPLUNK_DEFAULTS_URL=

SPLUNK_GROUP=splunk

SPLUNK_ANSIBLE_HOME=/opt/ansible

TERM=xterm

SPLUNK_ROLE=splunk_standalone

SPLUNK_PASSWORD=A#123#aaa

PYTHON_GPG_KEY_ID=####

TMPSPLUNKDIR=/opt/splunk/tmp

PYTHON_VERSION=3.7.10

ANSIBLE_GROUP=ansible

SPLUNK_START_ARGS=--accept-license

TMPETCDIR=/opt/splunk/tmp/etc

SHLVL=1

SPLUNK_USER=splunk

PATH=/home/ansible/.local/bin:/home/ansible/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin

_=/usr/bin/env

[ansible@28f74f55c15a splunk]$ whoami

ansible

 

There is no change in from ansible to splunk. Due to this unable to browse some /opt/splunk files as facing persmission issue. Not sure what other changed needed to environment file. Please check 

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