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Error connecting to /services/authentication/users/splunk: timed out'

nawab123
Observer

When I try to login to splunk it give me authentication options. Once user pass is provided. it gives me below error.

 

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Also when i checked web_service.log I see below error

'Error connecting to /services/authentication/users/splunk: timed out',)

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KendallW
Contributor

Hi @nawab123 most likely there is an issue with either your authentication.conf settings, or an issue connecting to the LDAP/SAML system. Check splunkd.log for those kind of errors

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