https://community.splunk.com/t5/Installation/Splunk-bash-startup-setup-with-ansible/m-p/566199#M10651 <P>Hi all,</P><P>I am trying to create an ansible playbook to automate splunk setup. I just noticed that the -user flag is not working (my admin is named admin instead of splunk). Am I doing something incorrect with this command? (Note: {{ splunk_user_password }} is an ansible variable that I am passing in to the bash command).</P><DIV><DIV><SPAN>/opt/splunkforwarder/bin/splunk&nbsp;start&nbsp;--accept-license&nbsp;--answer-yes -user&nbsp;splunk&nbsp;--seed-passwd&nbsp;{{&nbsp;splunk_user_password&nbsp;}}</SPAN></DIV><DIV>&nbsp;</DIV><DIV><SPAN>Do I need to use a user-seed.conf file instead? Does the user flag not work (I've tried both -- and - flags)?&nbsp;</SPAN></DIV><DIV>&nbsp;</DIV><DIV><SPAN>Thanks,</SPAN></DIV><DIV><SPAN>jack</SPAN></DIV></DIV> Tue, 07 Sep 2021 18:51:03 GMT jackjack 2021-09-07T18:51:03Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Installation/Splunk-bash-startup-setup-with-ansible/m-p/566199#M10651 <P>Hi all,</P><P>I am trying to create an ansible playbook to automate splunk setup. I just noticed that the -user flag is not working (my admin is named admin instead of splunk). Am I doing something incorrect with this command? (Note: {{ splunk_user_password }} is an ansible variable that I am passing in to the bash command).</P><DIV><DIV><SPAN>/opt/splunkforwarder/bin/splunk&nbsp;start&nbsp;--accept-license&nbsp;--answer-yes -user&nbsp;splunk&nbsp;--seed-passwd&nbsp;{{&nbsp;splunk_user_password&nbsp;}}</SPAN></DIV><DIV>&nbsp;</DIV><DIV><SPAN>Do I need to use a user-seed.conf file instead? Does the user flag not work (I've tried both -- and - flags)?&nbsp;</SPAN></DIV><DIV>&nbsp;</DIV><DIV><SPAN>Thanks,</SPAN></DIV><DIV><SPAN>jack</SPAN></DIV></DIV> Tue, 07 Sep 2021 18:51:03 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Installation/Splunk-bash-startup-setup-with-ansible/m-p/566199#M10651 jackjack 2021-09-07T18:51:03Z