https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Forwarder-Installation-on-Solaris/m-p/33198#M5923 <P>I was wondering if it's possible to install and run splunk as a different user id other than what is in the documentation to create username:splunk and group_name:splunk.</P> Mon, 13 Aug 2012 15:43:04 GMT ashafiee 2012-08-13T15:43:04Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Forwarder-Installation-on-Solaris/m-p/33198#M5923 <P>I was wondering if it's possible to install and run splunk as a different user id other than what is in the documentation to create username:splunk and group_name:splunk.</P> Mon, 13 Aug 2012 15:43:04 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Forwarder-Installation-on-Solaris/m-p/33198#M5923 ashafiee 2012-08-13T15:43:04Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Forwarder-Installation-on-Solaris/m-p/33199#M5924 <P>I think you can just chown the binary or directory that the daemon runs to whatever you like.</P> <P>This will chown the entire dir</P> <P>In this example, $SPLUNK_HOME = path to splunk's directory:</P> <P>chown -Rf splunk:splunk $SPLUNK_HOME <BR /> .$SPLUNK_HOME/bin/splunk stop<BR /> .$SPLUNK_HOME/bin/splunk start</P> Mon, 28 Sep 2020 12:15:20 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Forwarder-Installation-on-Solaris/m-p/33199#M5924 jkat54 2020-09-28T12:15:20Z