https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Scripting-user-deletes-will-the-clean-userdata-f-command-delete/m-p/107910#M22680 <P>It will reset the admin password back to "changeme", and I think all other admin user object fields (ie, full name, timezone, etc) back to defaults. But it will NOT delete anything in etc/user/admin. BTW, it will not delete the etc/user/... dir for a user who has created any private objects (saved searches, etc) and those private objects will still exist in that path. </P> Fri, 11 Jan 2013 19:55:56 GMT bobwalden 2013-01-11T19:55:56Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Scripting-user-deletes-will-the-clean-userdata-f-command-delete/m-p/107909#M22679 <P>Per documention, I can delete all userdata using ./splunk clean userdata -f</P> <P><A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/4.3.4/Admin/DeleteuserdatafromtheCLI">http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/4.3.4/Admin/DeleteuserdatafromtheCLI</A></P> <P>Question: will this affect the admin account?</P> Tue, 30 Oct 2012 22:07:47 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Scripting-user-deletes-will-the-clean-userdata-f-command-delete/m-p/107909#M22679 the_wolverine 2012-10-30T22:07:47Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Scripting-user-deletes-will-the-clean-userdata-f-command-delete/m-p/107910#M22680 <P>It will reset the admin password back to "changeme", and I think all other admin user object fields (ie, full name, timezone, etc) back to defaults. But it will NOT delete anything in etc/user/admin. BTW, it will not delete the etc/user/... dir for a user who has created any private objects (saved searches, etc) and those private objects will still exist in that path. </P> Fri, 11 Jan 2013 19:55:56 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Scripting-user-deletes-will-the-clean-userdata-f-command-delete/m-p/107910#M22680 bobwalden 2013-01-11T19:55:56Z