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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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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: xxxxxx@buttercupgames.com
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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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: xxxxxx@buttercupgames.com
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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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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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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To run |sendmail command you need "search" capability.
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Okay. Is that the only capability that is needed? If that is the case, then capabilities are not our issue.
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