On the stand-alone we just implemented SAML/SSO and one of the annoying pieces is that all saved objects (searches, macros, lookups, etc) are "owned" by the SAML ID # of the user who created them. Annoying that I have to then translate it to the user name but I can live with that.
Can you elaborate more on this problem? I'm not sure why you're doing manual translations. Why not have your IdP pass splunk the username as the name identifier, instead of "SAML ID #"?
More of a hassle is when our administrators want to publish something as being owned by the "admin" account. Since we can no longer sign on as that account to publish content, we have to go in and manually adjust the metadata files to change ownership. Again, hassle but at least it works.
You can still login with local splunk accounts with this URL:
https://yoursplunk.yourdomain.com:8000/en-US/account/login?loginType=splunk
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