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Splunk Ninja - Basic Training: Splunk & LDAP Authentication

In this long form video, I discuss how to setup Splunk to authenticate with your LDAP directory. An extensive overview of each component of the directory relevant to Splunk authentication is covered, including mapping Roles in Splunk to Groups in LDAP.

720p with Fullscreen Toggle is here: http://blip.tv/file/2878148. This video is downloadable as well.

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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.