Splunk Search

Report on users & roles

chris
Motivator

Is there an easy way I can list & export all users that have a certain role or that have access to a certain index or a certain capability?

It would be nice if I could do something like:

| metadata type=users

or
index=_users role=xy   

or any other method would be ok

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Ant1D
Motivator

The following search will show you what capabilities each user has used within the timeframe that you set:

index=_audit user=* action=* | dedup user action | stats list(action) AS actions by user

chris
Motivator

Thanks for looking into this.

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Ant1D
Motivator

I had a look at this earlier today. I haven't had much luck. There doesn't appear to be a straightforward way of achieving this format of mapping.

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Ant1D
Motivator

Makes sense. I will have a go when I get a minute.

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chris
Motivator

Thank you for your answer. It kind of helps. I guess the real requirement behind my question is the following: The owner of some data that is in Splunk wants to know who had access to "his" data (=index) at a specific point in time and if the person has read only or also delete priviledges & what priviledges have been used. So you answer helps in showing what priviledges have been used. But I would also like to have a index to role to user mapping ... does that make sense?

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