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What capabilities are needed to run sendemail command?

chrishartsock
Path Finder

Hello all,

Certain users in our environment seem to be able to run searches utilizing the "sendemail" command while others cannot. I am assuming this due to differing capabilities assigned to their roles. Does anyone know what capability(s) are required to run "sendemail"?

Thanks,
Chris

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chrishartsock
Path Finder

I did some more digging and it appears that the affected users were getting the following error:
2017-10-18 15:57:21,405 -0400 ERROR sendemail:452 - 'rootCAPath' while sending mail to: [email protected]

This led me to this question:
https://answers.splunk.com/answers/528832/e-mail-alerts-stopped-working-since-66-upgrade-for.html

As specified, I added the 'list_settings' capability to the role and it fixed the issue.

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chrishartsock
Path Finder

I did some more digging and it appears that the affected users were getting the following error:
2017-10-18 15:57:21,405 -0400 ERROR sendemail:452 - 'rootCAPath' while sending mail to: [email protected]

This led me to this question:
https://answers.splunk.com/answers/528832/e-mail-alerts-stopped-working-since-66-upgrade-for.html

As specified, I added the 'list_settings' capability to the role and it fixed the issue.

computermathguy
Communicator

We were getting a "command=sendmail, rootCAPath while sending mail to ..." message for users other than admins.

Adding the 'list_settings' capability  fixed it.

Thanks

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kamaljagga
Path Finder

We had upgraded from 7.2.6 to 8.0.5 recently and Adding the role list_Settings didn't work. Kindly advise.

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hardikJsheth
Motivator

To run |sendmail command you need "search" capability.

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chrishartsock
Path Finder

Okay. Is that the only capability that is needed? If that is the case, then capabilities are not our issue.

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