Security

Any tool to encrypt passwords based on a splunk.secret?

koshyk
Super Champion

We have multiple secrets for the different tiers (forwarders/search heads etc.). Some of the apps like IPS needs to have UI to encrypt password 😞 which is not possible on all tiers.

Is there a tool/API which can encrypt the password based on splunk.secret ?

eg. what I'm looking for is

=> supply passwords.conf and splunk.secret as inputs to the tool
=> run the api/tool so that it takes passwords.conf and splunk.secret of the relevant tier/server and hash the password with it

Thanks in advance

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starcher
Influencer

You could spin up a splunk instance with the splunk secret. Then use the encrypted password endpoint via your own script to enter passwords then grab the results from passwords.conf.

http://www.georgestarcher.com/splunk-stored-encrypted-credentials/

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xpac
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

There's an even easier available now, a Python project called splunksecrets that can be installed via PIP and gives you an easy CLI to encrypt + decrypt new and old secrets:

https://pypi.org/project/splunksecrets/

starcher
Influencer

You could spin up a splunk instance with the splunk secret. Then use the encrypted password endpoint via your own script to enter passwords then grab the results from passwords.conf.

http://www.georgestarcher.com/splunk-stored-encrypted-credentials/

koshyk
Super Champion

I had seen the website, but great to see the answer from the person itself. 🙂 You guys are real heroes.

We had similar issues and great if we can work on a github project to make this automated for ansible
Accepting the answer.

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