Security

User unable to login to Splunk

pratapa
Explorer

A user reported that she is unable to login to Splunk with her credentials. Whereas I could able to login to Splunk with my credentials.
What could be the problem.

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woodcock
Esteemed Legend

CAPS LOCK???

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wincy_0503
New Member

If you have SSH access to splunk server where user is unable to login. You can create a user-seed.conf , however may require to delete $SPLUNK_HOME//etc/passwd file or there might be a case where passwd file is delete accidently. Then password to that particular user can be set using user-seed.conf, which inturn create the passwd file containing user and encrypted password. For more details on creating user-seed.conf, follow below link https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.0.2/Admin/User-seedconf.

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woodcock
Esteemed Legend

If you are using LDAP then Splunk will default to that as the login type and you cannot use local logins. If you need to use a local login, then you need to specify certain URI values like this:

.../en-US/account/login?loginType=splunk
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dindu
Contributor

Hi,

Please check with your admin to check for whether the user is locked or not.
Go to Settings-->Users(Under Users and authentication)-->Search for the user.

It's better to reset the password

P.S- I hope you are using native login not LDAP or saml

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pratapa
Explorer

User is using AD login.

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