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About users and roles

You can create users with passwords and assign them to roles that you have created. Splunk Enterprise Free does not support user authentication.

Create users

Splunk Enterprise supports three types of authentication systems, which are described in the Securing Splunk Enterprise manual.

About roles

Users are assigned to roles. A role contains a set of capabilities. Capabilities specify what actions are available to roles. For example, capabilities determine whether someone with a particular role is allowed to add inputs or edit saved searches. The various capabilities are listed in "About defining roles with capabilities" in the Securing Splunk Enterprise manual.

By default, Splunk Enterprise comes with the following roles predefined:

  • admin -- this role has the most capabilities assigned to it.
  • power -- this role can edit all shared objects (saved searches, etc) and alerts, tag events, and other similar tasks.
  • user -- this role can create and edit its own saved searches, run searches, edit its own preferences, create and edit event types, and other similar tasks.
  • can_delete -- This role allows the user to delete by keyword. This capability is necessary when using the delete search operator.

Note Do not edit the predefined roles. Instead, create custom roles that inherit from the built-in roles, and modify the custom roles as required.

For detailed information on roles and how to assign users to roles, see the chapter "Users and role-based access control" in the Securing Splunk Enterprise manual.

Find existing users and roles

To locate an existing user or role in Splunk Web, use the Search bar at the top of the Users or Roles page in the Access Controls section by selecting Settings > Access Controls. Wildcards are supported. By default Splunk Enterprise searches in all available fields for the string that you enter. To search a particular field, specify that field. For example, to search only email addresses, type "email=<email address or address fragment>:, or to search only the "Full name" field, type "realname=<name or name fragment>. To search for users in a given role, use "roles=".

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This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk® Enterprise: 7.1.0, 7.1.1, 7.1.2, 7.1.3, 7.1.4, 7.1.5, 7.1.6, 7.1.7, 7.1.8, 7.1.9, 7.1.10, 7.2.0, 7.2.1, 7.2.2, 7.2.3, 7.2.4, 7.2.5, 7.2.6, 7.2.7, 7.2.8, 7.2.9, 7.2.10, 7.3.0, 7.3.1, 7.3.2, 7.3.3, 7.3.4, 7.3.5, 7.3.6, 7.3.7, 7.3.8, 7.3.9, 8.0.0, 8.0.1, 8.0.2, 8.0.3, 8.0.4, 8.0.5, 8.0.6, 8.0.7, 8.0.8, 8.0.9, 8.0.10, 8.1.0, 8.1.1, 8.1.2, 8.1.3, 8.1.4, 8.1.5, 8.1.6, 8.1.7, 8.1.8, 8.1.9, 8.1.10, 8.1.11, 8.1.12, 8.1.13, 8.1.14, 8.2.0, 8.2.1, 8.2.2, 8.2.3, 8.2.4, 8.2.5, 8.2.6, 8.2.7, 8.2.8, 8.2.9, 8.2.10, 8.2.11, 8.2.12, 9.0.0, 9.0.1, 9.0.2, 9.0.3, 9.0.4, 9.0.5, 9.0.6, 9.0.7, 9.0.8, 9.1.0, 9.1.1, 9.1.2, 9.1.3, 9.2.0


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