I have read about, but not test the following methodology which allows for syncing saved searches via LDAP.
Convert saved searches to LDAP
I do not think that this method covers the rest of the users settings that are stored within /opt/splunk/etc/users and perhaps that should be an enhancement request. You might be able to use rsync to keep this entire hierarchy up to date assuming that the usernames are common across each search head.
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