Hi all, I'm currently facing an issue where i migrated the /etc/users/* from a standalone ES SH into the deployer's shcluster/apps/ to be deployed to the 3 SHC members. Also the authentication.conf...
Hello, I am new to splunk and noticed we have two different authentication.conf files in the local folder. I compared them two and they are the same except for information regarding g...
...onfiguration below works, but how should I manage changes like this given the GUI limitation -- should I continue to edit the file directly (along with authentication.conf) going forward (and not use the G...
I am wanting to set up multiple authentication types, both LDAP and scripted. I would thus need to somehow set multiple authType values in the authentication.conf. However from reading the d...
Today I setup another Splunk search head. We use LDAP for user authentication. I copied several files including authentication.conf from our existing Splunk server (combination indexer and web f...
I want to use my deployment server to distribute the authentication.conf file but that leaves an unencrypted password in my deployment-apps folder.
I have been searching through and have found a...
I am trying to edit etc/system/local/authentication.conf via the rest API. I was advised to look at
Edit Configs via Rest; which seems to suggest something like the following should work
c...
...ccounts without any AD accounts mapped
How do I to edit the authentication.conf file with new ldap account and password without any breakage like above??
...pdate local admin account password with long 18chars random generated string
I found the file I need to update it is under : /opt/splunk/etc/system/local/authentication.conf, I can create a...