Hello, I am having troubles with the installation of SplunkEnterpriseasnon-rootuser. I think it may be some kind of problem with Red Hat Enterprise v9 or maybe systemd. Online, even in the d...
I have installed SplunkEnterprise free trial into a VM asarootuser. I know the best practice is to avoid using root to runasSplunk in case the underlying OS gets compromised and then the h...
Hi,
I want to runsplunk-universalforwarder with non-rootuser. I created my own docker image and tried to run it.
But when I run the docker image and it return error as "sh: 1: cannot c...
The Splunk indexer and forwarders in my environment are configured to runas the "splunk" user for security reasons. Of course, this means that Splunk can no longer read root owned log files. The f...
I've been working on remediating this vulnerability https://www.splunk.com/view/SP-CAAAP3M "Potential Local Privilege Escalation through instructions to runSplunkasnon-rootuser" and t...
...t under the splunkuser, or the user set in the /etc/init.d/splunk script which is irrelevant here I think) :
root@ubuntu:/opt/splunk/bin# ./splunk start
Splunk> All batbelt. No tights....
I have a single instance SplunkEnterprise 7.1.2 on Linux. I have used anon-rootuser "splunk" & group "splunk" to install Splunk. At the time of install i made sure to run "chown -R splunk...
I just started rolling out universal forwarder 9.1.0.1 on a few machines. To my horror i noticed that splunkagain made a significant change in a minor release. The forwarder is now owner by user "splunk...