- #Splunk authentication conf install
- #Splunk authentication conf password
- #Splunk authentication conf free
#Splunk authentication conf free
If you’re tired, frustrated, lost and given up hope after reading this, feel free to contact Splunk Support and we’ll get you moving forward.To assure accountability and prevent unauthenticated access, organizational users must be uniquely identified and authenticated to prevent potential misuse and compromise of the system. Enter your LDAP hostname and go from there.
#Splunk authentication conf install
OK, if you MUST use an LDAP Browser then check out Apache Directory Studio which is free for OSX, Linux and Windows.ĭownload, install and launch. And you can now enable DEBUG logging right in the UI, under System Logging, without having to restart Splunk. And, It is very helpful to have DEBUG logging enabled for ‘authenticationManagerLDAP’ when troubleshooting these LDAP issues. If not, you’ll have to login as the failsafe user and figure out what went wrong.Ī couple more hints: Don’t forget that handy dandy tool called ldapsearch. Once you’ve got LDAP auth configured, restart Splunk and, if you’re lucky, you’ll be able to login as an LDAP user. The format is usually (Splunk Role) = (LDAP group CN) This must be done before users will be able to log in. *Here’s where you will map the LDAP group to Splunk Role. Here’s an example that returns only those users who are a member of the SplunkAdmins group or the SplunkUsers group in LDAP: (|(memberOf=CN=SplunkAdmins)(memberOf=CN=SplunkUsers)) *Like the groupBaseFilter, this can be very useful if you have to narrow down your search results. Example: ou=Tech Support,ou=People,dc=Splunkers,dc=com ou=ITOPs,ou=People,dc=Splunkers,dc=com UserBaseDN = ou=People,dc=splunksupport,dc=com Other possible attributes you can use are displayName, cn. *This is the “pretty name” for your users. If you’re using AD, you can leave it to the default of 800. I set this to 0 because I use Sun LDAP in-house for testing - Sun LDAP does not support paging so it has to be disabled this way. *This tells the LDAP server how many entries to return “per page” of request. *This is the hostname, FQDN or IP address of your LDAP Server. Usually, ‘cn’ but can be set to something else. *This is the “pretty name” for your group. This attribute is the one that stores the member’s dn (usually.) *Typically, you have a list of members listed out within the group entry. I have very rarely seen this set to anything else. It can be very useful for narrowing down search results if you have a large Directory tree to recurse (and/or large entries being returned.) For example: ou=Management,ou=Groups,dc=Splunkers,dc=com ou=Consultants,ou=Groups,dc=Splunkers,dc=com *This is the Base of your Groups in LDAP. GroupBaseDN = ou=Groups,dc=splunksupport,dc=com Enter in plain text and it gets hashed on restart.
#Splunk authentication conf password
*Enter your desired password for your failsafe account above. I like to use ‘admin’ to keep things simple. The password gets hashed when you restart Splunk. *Enter the password for the configured password.
your LDAP server allows anonymous bind, you can leave this field blank. If binding to AD, you can use a valid email address, e.g. *Bind account used to make requests to LDAP server. *disabled by default – Make sure your LDAP server supports LDAPS if enabling this. *This is the custom name you set for your LDAP configuration “strategy”. (BTW, a lot of this explanation already exists in a file called $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/README/): Here’s a sample nf file that I will break down for you. You can either create it by hand or use the UI (which creates the file for you.) If you have never attempted to configure ldap auth before then you won’t have one of these files in your $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/local/. The file used to configure LDAP authentication: nf How can you use that information to configure Splunk to authenticate against LDAP? Now that I’ve (hopefully) convinced you that ldapsearch is your friend, let’s get down to the matter.
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