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When configured for LDAP authentication, Splunk will "fall back" to splunk local accounts if the LDAP user isn't found. Is it possible to bypass SAML authentication to log in with a Splunk local account? I've tried a variety of things including statically pasting the link to
/en-US/account/login?
but no matter what, I'm directed to the ADFS AdP. Right now that's not working, so I need to make modifications and re-export the SAML metadata
/saml/spmedata
but even that forces me to the IdP login page. I'm kinda stuck... I did manage to switch authentication.conf to Splunk local logins so I could log in as local admin, make the appropriate changes, and re-export the metadata, but there must (should) be a way to allow this...
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Need to add loginType=splunk& in a SAML env. For example
https://:8000/en-US/account/insecurelogin?loginType=splunk&username=&password=
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/en-US/account/login?loginType=splunk
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Is there anyway to block this URI from being accessible. If for example the server is behind a loadbalancer? I've tried blocking the URI, but then it breaks SAML
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Yes, it is in the docs:
https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Admin/Webconf
enable_insecure_login = <boolean>
* Whether or not the GET-based "/account/insecurelogin" REST endpoint is enabled.
* Provides an alternate GET-based authentication mechanism.
* If "true", the following url is available:
http://localhost:8000/en-US/account/insecurelogin?loginType=splunk&username=noc&password=XXXXXXX
* If "false", only the main /account/login endpoint is available
* Default: false
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Confirmed... actually found this out today outside of this thread and came back to update before I saw this answer. Thanks for the feedback!
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Once you enable saml all splunk web endpoints are protected by the IdP. You might find something useful via the api on port 8089 however.
http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/RESTREF/RESTaccess
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