topic How do I reset the admin password or create a new admin in Splunk 7+? in Security https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/How-do-I-reset-the-admin-password-or-create-a-new-admin-in/m-p/419645#M9957 <P>Renaming etc/passwd to passwd.bak and using user-seed.conf doesn't seem to work and I'm on a mac.</P> Wed, 22 Aug 2018 23:54:30 GMT splunk2day 2018-08-22T23:54:30Z How do I reset the admin password or create a new admin in Splunk 7+? https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/How-do-I-reset-the-admin-password-or-create-a-new-admin-in/m-p/419645#M9957 <P>Renaming etc/passwd to passwd.bak and using user-seed.conf doesn't seem to work and I'm on a mac.</P> Wed, 22 Aug 2018 23:54:30 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/How-do-I-reset-the-admin-password-or-create-a-new-admin-in/m-p/419645#M9957 splunk2day 2018-08-22T23:54:30Z Re: How do I reset the admin password or create a new admin in Splunk 7+? https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/How-do-I-reset-the-admin-password-or-create-a-new-admin-in/m-p/419646#M9958 <P>@splunk2day, </P> <P>look here: <BR /> <A href="https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.1.2/Security/Secureyouradminaccount#Reset_a_lost_password">https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.1.2/Security/Secureyouradminaccount#Reset_a_lost_password</A></P> Thu, 23 Aug 2018 07:18:16 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/How-do-I-reset-the-admin-password-or-create-a-new-admin-in/m-p/419646#M9958 horsefez 2018-08-23T07:18:16Z Re: How do I reset the admin password or create a new admin in Splunk 7+? https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/How-do-I-reset-the-admin-password-or-create-a-new-admin-in/m-p/419647#M9959 <P>Finally i could hard reset my admin pass from CLI using - </P> <P>./splunk cmd splunkd rest --noauth POST /services/admin/users/admin "password=new8charpass" </P> Thu, 23 Aug 2018 07:18:17 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/How-do-I-reset-the-admin-password-or-create-a-new-admin-in/m-p/419647#M9959 splunk2day 2018-08-23T07:18:17Z