topic Re: Hi, i installed the trial version of Splunk on a Linux machine and tried loggin to the url in the browser. The default user name and Pwd for 1st time user which is 'admin' and 'changeme' respectively is not working. Can someone help me on this? in Security https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/Hi-i-installed-the-trial-version-of-Splunk-on-a-Linux-machine/m-p/321401#M12659 <P>You can simply wipe the passwd file on the server to reset the password</P> <P><CODE>/opt/splunk/etc/passwd</CODE> then restart Splunk and it will have the default <CODE>admin/changeme</CODE> credentials </P> Wed, 07 Mar 2018 12:35:49 GMT skoelpin 2018-03-07T12:35:49Z Hi, i installed the trial version of Splunk on a Linux machine and tried loggin to the url in the browser. The default user name and Pwd for 1st time user which is 'admin' and 'changeme' respectively is not working. Can someone help me on this? https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/Hi-i-installed-the-trial-version-of-Splunk-on-a-Linux-machine/m-p/321397#M12655 <P>Hi, i installed the trial version of Splunk on a Linux machine and tried logging to the url in the browser. The default user name and Pwd for 1st time user which is 'admin' and 'changeme' respectively is not working. Can someone help me on this?</P> Wed, 07 Mar 2018 12:21:20 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/Hi-i-installed-the-trial-version-of-Splunk-on-a-Linux-machine/m-p/321397#M12655 raghavjha73 2018-03-07T12:21:20Z Re: Hi, i installed the trial version of Splunk on a Linux machine and tried loggin to the url in the browser. The default user name and Pwd for 1st time user which is 'admin' and 'changeme' respectively is not working. Can someone help me on this? https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/Hi-i-installed-the-trial-version-of-Splunk-on-a-Linux-machine/m-p/321398#M12656 <P>does it shows Invalid username or password upon Signing in?</P> Wed, 07 Mar 2018 12:26:40 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/Hi-i-installed-the-trial-version-of-Splunk-on-a-Linux-machine/m-p/321398#M12656 lloydknight 2018-03-07T12:26:40Z Re: Hi, i installed the trial version of Splunk on a Linux machine and tried loggin to the url in the browser. The default user name and Pwd for 1st time user which is 'admin' and 'changeme' respectively is not working. Can someone help me on this? https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/Hi-i-installed-the-trial-version-of-Splunk-on-a-Linux-machine/m-p/321399#M12657 <P>yes it is showing invalid username and pwd</P> Wed, 07 Mar 2018 12:29:27 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/Hi-i-installed-the-trial-version-of-Splunk-on-a-Linux-machine/m-p/321399#M12657 raghavjha73 2018-03-07T12:29:27Z Re: Hi, i installed the trial version of Splunk on a Linux machine and tried loggin to the url in the browser. The default user name and Pwd for 1st time user which is 'admin' and 'changeme' respectively is not working. Can someone help me on this? https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/Hi-i-installed-the-trial-version-of-Splunk-on-a-Linux-machine/m-p/321400#M12658 <P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper" image-alt="alt text"><img src="https://community.splunk.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/4473iA2D21CC6CEE2F1B4/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="alt text" alt="alt text" /></span></P> Wed, 07 Mar 2018 12:31:18 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/Hi-i-installed-the-trial-version-of-Splunk-on-a-Linux-machine/m-p/321400#M12658 raghavjha73 2018-03-07T12:31:18Z Re: Hi, i installed the trial version of Splunk on a Linux machine and tried loggin to the url in the browser. The default user name and Pwd for 1st time user which is 'admin' and 'changeme' respectively is not working. Can someone help me on this? https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/Hi-i-installed-the-trial-version-of-Splunk-on-a-Linux-machine/m-p/321401#M12659 <P>You can simply wipe the passwd file on the server to reset the password</P> <P><CODE>/opt/splunk/etc/passwd</CODE> then restart Splunk and it will have the default <CODE>admin/changeme</CODE> credentials </P> Wed, 07 Mar 2018 12:35:49 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/Hi-i-installed-the-trial-version-of-Splunk-on-a-Linux-machine/m-p/321401#M12659 skoelpin 2018-03-07T12:35:49Z Re: Hi, i installed the trial version of Splunk on a Linux machine and tried loggin to the url in the browser. The default user name and Pwd for 1st time user which is 'admin' and 'changeme' respectively is not working. Can someone help me on this? https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/Hi-i-installed-the-trial-version-of-Splunk-on-a-Linux-machine/m-p/321402#M12660 <P>Thanks. I renamed the passwd file to some other name and then restarted the server. Able to login now.</P> Wed, 07 Mar 2018 12:55:36 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/Hi-i-installed-the-trial-version-of-Splunk-on-a-Linux-machine/m-p/321402#M12660 raghavjha73 2018-03-07T12:55:36Z Re: Hi, i installed the trial version of Splunk on a Linux machine and tried loggin to the url in the browser. The default user name and Pwd for 1st time user which is 'admin' and 'changeme' respectively is not working. Can someone help me on this? https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/Hi-i-installed-the-trial-version-of-Splunk-on-a-Linux-machine/m-p/321403#M12661 <P>Please accept the answer if this helped you</P> Wed, 07 Mar 2018 15:11:06 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/Hi-i-installed-the-trial-version-of-Splunk-on-a-Linux-machine/m-p/321403#M12661 skoelpin 2018-03-07T15:11:06Z Re: Hi, i installed the trial version of Splunk on a Linux machine and tried loggin to the url in the browser. The default user name and Pwd for 1st time user which is 'admin' and 'changeme' respectively is not working. Can someone help me on this? https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/Hi-i-installed-the-trial-version-of-Splunk-on-a-Linux-machine/m-p/321404#M12662 <P>i installed splunk forwarder and tried to run below command : ./splunk enable boot-start --accept-license.</P> <P>I got below error:<BR /> This appears to be your first time running this version of Splunk.<BR /> Can't create RC file "/etc/init.d/splunk": Permission denied</P> <P>Is there a way that the RC file is created in some different path because i don't have access to add/modify any files in /opt or /etc folder.</P> Thu, 08 Mar 2018 05:18:40 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/Hi-i-installed-the-trial-version-of-Splunk-on-a-Linux-machine/m-p/321404#M12662 raghavjha73 2018-03-08T05:18:40Z