https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/admin-password-reset-did-not-work/m-p/50139#M1642 <P>Did you remember to restart Splunk after removing the passwd? At startup Splunk will notice missing passwd and create you a new one with admin/changeme.</P> Tue, 04 Sep 2012 05:30:19 GMT kallu 2012-09-04T05:30:19Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/admin-password-reset-did-not-work/m-p/50138#M1641 <P>I have previously installed Splunk (a year or so ago) and recently installed v4.3.3 on top of it. But, I have forgotten the admin password, I have attempted to reset it by renaming C:\Program Files\Splunk\etc\passwd to passwd.bak, but I still could not login as admin/changeme. Please advise, thanks.</P> Tue, 04 Sep 2012 05:19:52 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/admin-password-reset-did-not-work/m-p/50138#M1641 ayamin 2012-09-04T05:19:52Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/admin-password-reset-did-not-work/m-p/50139#M1642 <P>Did you remember to restart Splunk after removing the passwd? At startup Splunk will notice missing passwd and create you a new one with admin/changeme.</P> Tue, 04 Sep 2012 05:30:19 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/admin-password-reset-did-not-work/m-p/50139#M1642 kallu 2012-09-04T05:30:19Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/admin-password-reset-did-not-work/m-p/50140#M1643 <P>Thanks for the prompt reply. Good point. I did splunkd.exe stop and renamed the passwd and then start and it did the trick. Thanks!</P> Tue, 04 Sep 2012 05:56:26 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/admin-password-reset-did-not-work/m-p/50140#M1643 ayamin 2012-09-04T05:56:26Z