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How to find out if a user logged in as "guest" and then switched to an account with admin privileges?

steinr23
New Member

Hey all. Just trying to find a way to see if a user logs in on "guest", and then switches to an account with admin privileges? Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

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jterry
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Assuming by "switches" you mean "logs out of the 1st session & logs in again using a different account", that would be pretty difficult to do w/certainty. If you are indexing network traffic & can ascertain that the admin logged in from the same ip that the non-admin just logged out from, that would be a good indication but who's to say the source ip system was not shared? Splunk provides a very flexible logging system that provides quite a bit of granularity w/regards to how much info is logged but determining who was sitting at a particular keyboard is going to be tough. Another approach might be to correlate "guest" activity w/the admin activity: if the guest was looking at a particular alert, for instance & then an admin logged in and modified that same alert then that's significant.

jterry
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Assuming by "switches" you mean "logs out of the 1st session & logs in again using a different account", that would be pretty difficult to do w/certainty. If you are indexing network traffic & can ascertain that the admin logged in from the same ip that the non-admin just logged out from, that would be a good indication but who's to say the source ip system was not shared? Splunk provides a very flexible logging system that provides quite a bit of granularity w/regards to how much info is logged but determining who was sitting at a particular keyboard is going to be tough. Another approach might be to correlate "guest" activity w/the admin activity: if the guest was looking at a particular alert, for instance & then an admin logged in and modified that same alert then that's significant.

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steinr23
New Member

Assuming by "switches" you mean "logs out of the 1st session & logs in again using a different account", - Correct. I figured it would be pretty difficult, and I can't find a way to do it. How about a way just to find if the person logs on to admin during the 1st session?

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jterry
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee
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dkoshe_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Suggest using the latest version of the doc What Splunk logs about itself

lguinn2
Legend

Also, the question did not specify "logs into Splunk as a guest"

And Splunk does not have "guest" login - either you have a Splunk account or you don't. You could login with a less-privileged role...

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lguinn2
Legend

Logs onto what? Splunk? the OS?

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jterry
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

whichever. i'd assume the context of the original question

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