How can I use Google Apps OpenID authentication with Splunk single sign-on?

[cnk]

We would love to be able to use the splunk single sign-on functionality to authenticate our users using their Google Apps account. Is this possible?

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Admin/Usesinglesign-onwithSplunk#Configure_Splunk...

[cnk · Accepted solution]

We've been using splunk-auth-proxy, which we wrote internally, for the past few months and decided to open source it.

Splunk SSO proxy for Google Apps:
https://github.com/Shopify/splunk-auth-proxy

Howto:
http://nsmjunkie.blogspot.com/2011/08/google-apps-authentication-and-splunk.html

Enjoy!

[dhaffner_splunk]

Howto Link should now be
http://nsmjunkie.blogspot.com/2011/08/google-apps-authentication-and-splunk.html