Security

How do I reload authentication from CLI?

the_wolverine
Champion

My LDAP groups membership lists change often. I need a way to programmatically tell Splunk to reload authentication. Can this be done?

1 Solution

the_wolverine
Champion

Please refer to this blog post on the command you can run from CLI. You can write a cronjob to run the command on a regular basis to keep your group membership list updated automatically.

Note that this only applies to versions 3.x and 4.0.x. In version 4.1, the manner in which we cache LDAP user/group information becomes more dynamic and so reloading authentication is not necessary.

View solution in original post

the_wolverine
Champion
$ splunk _internal call /authentication/providers/services/_reload -auth admin:changeme

the_wolverine
Champion

Please refer to this blog post on the command you can run from CLI. You can write a cronjob to run the command on a regular basis to keep your group membership list updated automatically.

Note that this only applies to versions 3.x and 4.0.x. In version 4.1, the manner in which we cache LDAP user/group information becomes more dynamic and so reloading authentication is not necessary.

Get Updates on the Splunk Community!

Dashboards: Hiding charts while search is being executed and other uses for tokens

There are a couple of features of SimpleXML / Classic dashboards that can be used to enhance the user ...

Splunk Observability Cloud's AI Assistant in Action Series: Explaining Metrics and ...

This is the fourth post in the Splunk Observability Cloud’s AI Assistant in Action series that digs into how ...

Brains, Bytes, and Boston: Learn from the Best at .conf25

When you think of Boston, you might picture colonial charm, world-class universities, or even the crack of a ...