This documentation does not apply to the most recent version of Splunk.
This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk: 3.0 , 3.0.1 , 3.0.2 , 3.1 , 3.1.1 , 3.1.2 , 3.1.3 , 3.1.4
For a description of Splunk user roles and using Splunk Authentication, see the Add Users section.
For a description on how to configure Splunk for LDAP authentication, see Set up LDAP.