Splunk® Enterprise

Securing Splunk Enterprise

Set up native Splunk authentication

The native Splunk authentication scheme is the default scheme for authentication on the Splunk platform. It comes standard with every Splunk Enterprise installation and Splunk Cloud Platform uses it by default when you get Splunk Cloud Platform set up.

Native Splunk authentication lets you easily configure users to access Splunk platform resources. The native authentication scheme always takes precedence over any external authentication schemes.

The Splunk platform authenticates users in the following order:

  1. Native Splunk authentication
  2. Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), or scripted authentication (if you turn it on). For more information, see the following topics:

It isn't possible to use both LDAP and scripted authentication at the same time.

You can create new users and assign roles to those users with a role-based access control system in two ways:

Naming guidelines for users and roles

When you create users and roles within the native authentication scheme, heed the following caveats:

  1. Usernames for the native authentication scheme cannot contain spaces, colons, or forward slashes.
  2. Usernames are not case-sensitive. For example: Jacque, jacque, and JacQue are all the same to the native Splunk authentication scheme.
  3. Role names must use lowercase characters only. They cannot contain spaces, colons, or forward slashes.
Last modified on 20 May, 2024
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This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk® Enterprise: 7.0.0, 7.0.1, 7.0.2, 7.0.3, 7.0.4, 7.0.5, 7.0.6, 7.0.7, 7.0.8, 7.0.9, 7.0.10, 7.0.11, 7.0.13, 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, 8.1.1, 8.1.2, 8.1.3, 8.1.4, 8.1.5, 8.1.6, 8.1.7, 8.1.8, 8.1.9, 8.1.13, 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, 9.0.9, 9.0.10, 9.1.0, 9.1.1, 9.1.2, 9.1.3, 9.1.4, 9.1.5, 9.1.6, 9.2.0, 9.2.1, 9.2.2, 9.2.3, 9.3.0, 9.3.1, 8.1.0, 8.1.10, 8.1.11, 8.1.12


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