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How to check which local system account splunk is using to run?

summitsplunk
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How do I verify which account splunk is running as? I want to make sure it's running as splunk and not root.

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FrankVl
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Log in to the command line and run a command like ps aux | grep Splunk which shows the user the Splunk process runs as at the start of the line.

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FrankVl
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Log in to the command line and run a command like ps aux | grep Splunk which shows the user the Splunk process runs as at the start of the line.

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