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Can I authenticate with the "splunk" CLI tool to a remote Splunk server that uses Okta for authentication?

msabramo
New Member

splunk login wants a username and password:

$ ./splunk login
Splunk username: user
Password:
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Login Failed

but since my Splunk server uses Okta for auth, there is no password to give it.

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davidpaper
Contributor

Greetings,

Splunk's CLI calls do not work with SSO. If you want to use your SSO-enabled splunk instance with ./splunk calls, you will need to add a local user to the splunk instance and authenticate via that user ID.

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