Comment by Michael Wilde on November 23, 2009 at 11:57am

Note: Splunk loads up the list of users in your directory only upon restart, or if you manually reload the authentication config from the LDAP settings. If you add a new user to your directory, you'll find you can't login right away until the list of users is updated. Irritating. Slightly.

Amrit mentions how you can script the reload of auth on a periodic basis (with cron, perhaps) in his blog post here:

http://blogs.splunk.com/amrit/2009/08/20/reload-4-auth/

Rumor has it this issue will be fixed in 2010.

Comment by Mike Hartford on February 7, 2012 at 2:01pm

I want to give LDAP access to my splunk servcie but I don't want the LDAP users to have admin capabilitys in Splunk.  Can I keep the domain admins out of Splunk if I have LDAP authentication???

Comment by Michael Wilde on February 8, 2012 at 12:17pm

Sure...  When you do group mapping, map them to groups that don't have the domain admins in them.  I have a separate OU=Groups that has "Splunk Users, Splunk Admins, Splunk Power Users" as group names, and specific users assigned to them.  If you're not in one of those groups--you ain't gettin' in yo!.

Comment by Mike Hartford on February 8, 2012 at 12:19pm

Got it thanks

Comment by lee mason on March 16, 2012 at 5:08am

Amazingly helpful article thanks

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