Custom User Access Layer

[ivantn21]

Hello here at my job we have a custom user management system other than the typical AD/LDAP and I was looking for way to be able to support a custom access layer for splunkweb. Since it already supports AD/LDAP maybe it would not be difficult to add another authentication mechanism to it?

Thanks!

[MHibbin]

Not done this myself, however Splunk does have authentication API. You should probably start with the following documentation:

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/5.0.3/Security/ConfigureSplunkToUsePAMOrRADIUSAuthentica...

[ivantn21]

Thanks will look in to this!

[martin_mueller]

You can create your own authentication for Splunk to use, see http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Security/ConfigureSplunkToUsePAMOrRADIUSAuthentic... for more info. Basically you write a Python script that delegates authentication to your custom system.

[ivantn21]

Thanks will look in to this!