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auditing password changes

a212830
Champion
‎06-12-2014 03:29 AM

Hi,

Is there any record of when a password is changed for user accounts? I need to audit it for a security request.

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s2_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee
‎06-12-2014 12:33 PM

If your context is Splunk's internal authentication system, then yes. Password changes produce an entry in the _audit index:

index=_audit "action=password change"

Will show you the relevant log entries.

If you are using an external authentication mechanism (AD/LDAP), you will probably need to go to the source. But I am not sure about that one.

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