https://community.splunk.com/t5/Random/how-to-reset-admin-password-in-splunk-8/m-p/487509#M1291 <P>Sorry for the delay in my answer, the link goes 404 <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":disappointed_face:">😞</span></P> Tue, 03 Dec 2019 13:36:40 GMT 3DGjos 2019-12-03T13:36:40Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Random/how-to-reset-admin-password-in-splunk-8/m-p/487507#M1289 <P>Hello, i'm trying to retrieve my lab's admin account but no success. </P> <P>I tried the method of deleting the passwd file plus create user-seed.conf in system/local but didn't worked.</P> <P>any ideas? Thanks!</P> Wed, 20 Nov 2019 13:00:18 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Random/how-to-reset-admin-password-in-splunk-8/m-p/487507#M1289 3DGjos 2019-11-20T13:00:18Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Random/how-to-reset-admin-password-in-splunk-8/m-p/487508#M1290 <P>Have you tried resetting the password hash? i haven't tested it in 8 but a good write-up on it is available here: <A href="https://www.hurricanelabs.com/splunk-tutorials/splunk-7-1-performing-a-splunk-password-reset">https://www.hurricanelabs.com/splunk-tutorials/splunk-7-1-performing-a-splunk-password-reset</A></P> Wed, 20 Nov 2019 18:46:19 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Random/how-to-reset-admin-password-in-splunk-8/m-p/487508#M1290 mdsnmss 2019-11-20T18:46:19Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Random/how-to-reset-admin-password-in-splunk-8/m-p/487509#M1291 <P>Sorry for the delay in my answer, the link goes 404 <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":disappointed_face:">😞</span></P> Tue, 03 Dec 2019 13:36:40 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Random/how-to-reset-admin-password-in-splunk-8/m-p/487509#M1291 3DGjos 2019-12-03T13:36:40Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Random/how-to-reset-admin-password-in-splunk-8/m-p/487510#M1292 <P>Looks like the hyperlink added the period onto it and broke the link. I just removed the period from the link and it should work now.</P> Tue, 03 Dec 2019 14:11:44 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Random/how-to-reset-admin-password-in-splunk-8/m-p/487510#M1292 mdsnmss 2019-12-03T14:11:44Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Random/how-to-reset-admin-password-in-splunk-8/m-p/487511#M1293 <P>The easiest way is to just to reset it by adding a <CODE>user-seed.conf</CODE>, deleting the existing entry in <CODE>$SPLUNK_HOME/etc/passwd</CODE>, then restarting splunk:<BR /> <A href="https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Admin/User-seedconf">https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Admin/User-seedconf</A></P> Tue, 03 Dec 2019 15:55:19 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Random/how-to-reset-admin-password-in-splunk-8/m-p/487511#M1293 woodcock 2019-12-03T15:55:19Z