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How to delete user in splunk?

taraksinha
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Hi All,

I need to remove users from splunk, which they are no longer exist in company but user is still exists in splunk
Any search query to find user, whoever not using splunk since couple of weeks.

Thanks,

Tarak

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somesoni2
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For LDAP authentication, you can find the users who left the company and their LDAP account is deleted using following search

index=_internal sourcetype=splunkd source=*splunkd.log component=AuthenticationManagerLDAP log_level=ERROR  "Could not find" | table user
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chimell
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thanks.
You forgot to vote it

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taraksinha
New Member

FYI:- those are LDAP users

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