https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/Change-Password-for-default-admin-user/m-p/37516#M1263 <P>Is there a way to change the password for default <CODE>admin</CODE> user in the free edition?</P> <P>I get the following error:</P> <PRE><CODE>/opt/splunk/bin/splunk edit user admin -password 'newpass' In handler 'users': This feature requires a Splunk Enterprise license. </CODE></PRE> Thu, 26 Aug 2010 13:57:35 GMT niwo 2010-08-26T13:57:35Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/Change-Password-for-default-admin-user/m-p/37516#M1263 <P>Is there a way to change the password for default <CODE>admin</CODE> user in the free edition?</P> <P>I get the following error:</P> <PRE><CODE>/opt/splunk/bin/splunk edit user admin -password 'newpass' In handler 'users': This feature requires a Splunk Enterprise license. </CODE></PRE> Thu, 26 Aug 2010 13:57:35 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/Change-Password-for-default-admin-user/m-p/37516#M1263 niwo 2010-08-26T13:57:35Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/Change-Password-for-default-admin-user/m-p/37517#M1264 <P>No, there is not. There is no authentication available in the Free version, so no password can be set. You may use firewalls and/or proxies to limit access to Splunk instead.</P> Thu, 26 Aug 2010 14:01:31 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/Change-Password-for-default-admin-user/m-p/37517#M1264 gkanapathy 2010-08-26T14:01:31Z