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Forums: SplunkRequest: Include an authenticator to integrate with Google Apps

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posted by: bradwhittington  |  posts
date: November 2, 2009
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Google provides an API to provision and authenticate users http://code.google.com/apis/apps/gdata_provisioning_api_v2.0_reference.html. It would be nice if Splunk could use google apps for your domain as an authentication source (alternatively using the SSO http://code.google.com/apis/apps/sso/saml_reference_implementation.html, or OpenID implementation http://code.google.com/apis/apps/sso/openid_reference_implementation.html).

A python example for Django is available at http://techblog.appirio.com/2008/10/google-apps-auth-backend-for-django.html

Are there any plans to support more authentication back ends any time soon, or is there a straightforward way that a new kind of authentication backend can be added?

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posted by: araitz  |  posts
date: November 2, 2009
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I think you are looking for scripted auth:

http://www.splunk.com/base/Documentation/latest/Admin/ConfigureSplunktousePAMorRADIUSauthentication

Don't let the title fool you, PAM/RADIUS are just the auth types we ship examples for.

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posted by: bradwhittington  |  posts
date: November 4, 2009
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Cool, I will look, thanks.

P.S. Have you considered using the stackoverflow software to run your Q&A and feature requests?

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posted by: bradwhittington  |  posts
date: November 4, 2009
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As in http://www.stackexchange.com/