https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/Invalid-username-and-password/m-p/91727#M14186 <P>Hello Team,<BR /> I have just created a splunk in windows XP running in vm.<BR /> I am unable to login to the splunk, it showing invalid username and password.<BR /> I have tried changing the password file back to password.bak and still i am not able to login with the default username and password. <BR /> Please help me.</P> <P>regards,<BR /> krishnaraj</P> Wed, 14 Mar 2012 09:23:54 GMT radware_nesg 2012-03-14T09:23:54Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/Invalid-username-and-password/m-p/91727#M14186 <P>Hello Team,<BR /> I have just created a splunk in windows XP running in vm.<BR /> I am unable to login to the splunk, it showing invalid username and password.<BR /> I have tried changing the password file back to password.bak and still i am not able to login with the default username and password. <BR /> Please help me.</P> <P>regards,<BR /> krishnaraj</P> Wed, 14 Mar 2012 09:23:54 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/Invalid-username-and-password/m-p/91727#M14186 radware_nesg 2012-03-14T09:23:54Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/Invalid-username-and-password/m-p/91728#M14187 <P>Make sure you restart Splunk after changing the passwd file name.<BR /> Also just to be absolutely sure, the username is admin and the password is changeme by default.</P> <P>If you do that then it should work absolutely fine, otherwise it might be quicker and less time consuming to just do a clean install if this is just a test setup</P> Wed, 14 Mar 2012 09:58:39 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/Invalid-username-and-password/m-p/91728#M14187 Drainy 2012-03-14T09:58:39Z