https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Questions-about-user-seed-conf/m-p/112892#M97611 <P>It is only applied on the first run - or if <CODE>$SPLUNK_HOME/etc/passwd</CODE> is missing.<BR /><BR /> You can put any user you want in it, at any time.<BR /><BR /> If the first-run password for <CODE>admin</CODE> is <EM>not</EM> set here, the first-run password for <CODE>admin</CODE> will be <CODE>changeme</CODE>.</P> Mon, 08 Sep 2014 01:15:24 GMT lguinn2 2014-09-08T01:15:24Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Questions-about-user-seed-conf/m-p/112891#M97610 <P>I have few questions regarding to user-seed.conf<BR /> <A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Admin/User-seedconf">http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Admin/User-seedconf</A></P> <OL> <LI>Is it only applied in first run? Or it will be taken after restart everytime?</LI> <LI>Only applied to "admin"</LI> <LI>The spec mentioned "Currently, only one user can be configured with user-seed.conf." Related to both 1 &amp; 2, can I use it to create/change password for another user after restart?</LI> </OL> Fri, 05 Sep 2014 10:46:32 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Questions-about-user-seed-conf/m-p/112891#M97610 philip_wong 2014-09-05T10:46:32Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Questions-about-user-seed-conf/m-p/112892#M97611 <P>It is only applied on the first run - or if <CODE>$SPLUNK_HOME/etc/passwd</CODE> is missing.<BR /><BR /> You can put any user you want in it, at any time.<BR /><BR /> If the first-run password for <CODE>admin</CODE> is <EM>not</EM> set here, the first-run password for <CODE>admin</CODE> will be <CODE>changeme</CODE>.</P> Mon, 08 Sep 2014 01:15:24 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Questions-about-user-seed-conf/m-p/112892#M97611 lguinn2 2014-09-08T01:15:24Z