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How to Display whether a user has access to an index

SevenDos
Explorer

Hi!

We are using a dashboard that displays all the indexes and information about those indexes. I would like to have an additional column. The current search uses this:

 

 

| inputlookup name_of_the_lookup
| search index=* (index=***)
| sort by index
| table index, field_A, field_B, field_C, field_D, field_E, field_F, field_G, field_H, field_I, field_J, field_K

 

 

What I want to have is an additional column named 'Access',  that says whether it's true or false if the user currently watching that Dashboard has access to that Index. Is there a search that would do this?

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gcusello
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Hi @SevenDos,

using this search you can see all information about an index:

| rest /services/data/indexes count=0 
| table title eai:acl.perms.read eai:acl.perms.write

than you have to correlate these information with the present user

| rest /services/authentication/current-context 
| table username roles

At the end, you should have something like this:

| rest /services/data/indexes count=0 | table title eai:acl.perms.read eai:acl.perms.write
| rename eai:acl.perms.write AS roles
| mvexpand roles
| join roles [ | rest /services/authentication/current-context 
| mvexpand roles
| table username roles ]

I didn't displayed all the fields, you can add the fields you need.

Ciao.

Giuseppe

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gcusello
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Hi @SevenDos,

using this search you can see all information about an index:

| rest /services/data/indexes count=0 
| table title eai:acl.perms.read eai:acl.perms.write

than you have to correlate these information with the present user

| rest /services/authentication/current-context 
| table username roles

At the end, you should have something like this:

| rest /services/data/indexes count=0 | table title eai:acl.perms.read eai:acl.perms.write
| rename eai:acl.perms.write AS roles
| mvexpand roles
| join roles [ | rest /services/authentication/current-context 
| mvexpand roles
| table username roles ]

I didn't displayed all the fields, you can add the fields you need.

Ciao.

Giuseppe

SevenDos
Explorer

Ah great, so I could do:

| rest /services/data/indexes count=0 | table title eai:acl.perms.write
| rename eai:acl.perms.write AS Access title as index
| mvexpand Access
| join roles [ | rest /services/authentication/current-context 
| mvexpand roles
| table Access ]
| eval Access=if(like(Access, "admin"), "true", "false")
| dedup index

 ?

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