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Can a Splunk admin terminate a user session?
Can a Splunk admin terminate a user session?
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run splunk logout ,it will terminate the current session
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Is there a better way to do this yet via the web console?
We had an issue where someone was on leave and had a Splunk session open which they had configured to refresh every 5 seconds. They have been told not to do this anymore.
There was noone on staff over Christmas/New Year who could have performed this ssh command.
I would have hoped there should be an easier way?
Apart from restarting Splunk that is.
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It's not possible via the UI, but it can be done. It's a little tricky though:
Find the user's session via a REST endpoint of splunkd:
https://localhost:8089/services/authentication/httpauth-tokens
You can see the current session tokens. Find the one of the user you want to kick out and copy the link address of the token. Something like
https://localhost:8089/services/authentication/httpauth-tokens/4b298e3f7c3aa937f114f3657dbd5314
And then kill the session by executing the following command on the splunk server:
splunk _internal call "https://localhost:8089/services/authentication/httpauth-tokens/4b298e3f7c3aa937f114f3657dbd5314" -method DELETE
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Hello,
this is not accurate, can't find http tokens but user still doing searches.
Thanks.
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Please differentiate between a user doing "ad hoc" searches via the Web GUI and "saved searches" which will run on a time pattern(CRON) regardless of users current GUI access.
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Still now difficult to identify where users are connected from except if you search Splunk load balancers / web servers.
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index=_audit sourcetype=audittrail action IN ("login attempt" logout)
| table _time host user info reason clientip method session
If you add a filter on the user field you can narrow down to specific account.
- clientip: source IP of connection, obviously NAT could hide the source but that's up to your network layout
- session: this is the http auth token that other users have already shown how to force delete from the system
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This should be implemented in Splunk GUI 🙂
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