https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/i-forgot-my-password-and-username-and-the-default-one-is-not/m-p/187865#M5546 <P>You can move <CODE>$SPLUNK_HOME/etc/passwd</CODE> elsewhere, that will enable the default password for your admin account. Might mess with other local users though, so you'll want to move the relevant entries back into the new file afterwards.</P> Tue, 28 Oct 2014 23:33:05 GMT martin_mueller 2014-10-28T23:33:05Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/i-forgot-my-password-and-username-and-the-default-one-is-not/m-p/187864#M5545 Tue, 28 Oct 2014 23:12:37 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/i-forgot-my-password-and-username-and-the-default-one-is-not/m-p/187864#M5545 nawals 2014-10-28T23:12:37Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/i-forgot-my-password-and-username-and-the-default-one-is-not/m-p/187865#M5546 <P>You can move <CODE>$SPLUNK_HOME/etc/passwd</CODE> elsewhere, that will enable the default password for your admin account. Might mess with other local users though, so you'll want to move the relevant entries back into the new file afterwards.</P> Tue, 28 Oct 2014 23:33:05 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/i-forgot-my-password-and-username-and-the-default-one-is-not/m-p/187865#M5546 martin_mueller 2014-10-28T23:33:05Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/i-forgot-my-password-and-username-and-the-default-one-is-not/m-p/187866#M5547 <P>thank you.. but how can I find the passwd file??</P> Tue, 28 Oct 2014 23:55:15 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/i-forgot-my-password-and-username-and-the-default-one-is-not/m-p/187866#M5547 nawals 2014-10-28T23:55:15Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/i-forgot-my-password-and-username-and-the-default-one-is-not/m-p/187867#M5548 <P>It's at the location I posted above.</P> Tue, 28 Oct 2014 23:59:00 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/i-forgot-my-password-and-username-and-the-default-one-is-not/m-p/187867#M5548 martin_mueller 2014-10-28T23:59:00Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/i-forgot-my-password-and-username-and-the-default-one-is-not/m-p/187868#M5549 <P>note: $SPLUNK_HOME is the directory you installed Splunk into. </P> Wed, 29 Oct 2014 00:13:19 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/i-forgot-my-password-and-username-and-the-default-one-is-not/m-p/187868#M5549 piebob 2014-10-29T00:13:19Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/i-forgot-my-password-and-username-and-the-default-one-is-not/m-p/187869#M5550 <P>it gives me Permission denied <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":disappointed_face:">😞</span></P> Wed, 29 Oct 2014 00:39:31 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/i-forgot-my-password-and-username-and-the-default-one-is-not/m-p/187869#M5550 nawals 2014-10-29T00:39:31Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/i-forgot-my-password-and-username-and-the-default-one-is-not/m-p/187870#M5551 <P>Use a user that has write permissions for the file - when in doubt, sudo... or talk to your system admins.</P> Wed, 29 Oct 2014 08:39:54 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/i-forgot-my-password-and-username-and-the-default-one-is-not/m-p/187870#M5551 martin_mueller 2014-10-29T08:39:54Z