How to reset the password on one of my indexers?

[mrtolu6]

I'm trying to reset the password on one of my indexers, but I do not see a passwd.bak file in the etc directory. All I see is the passwd file. How do I reset my password?

[jluo_splunk · Accepted solution]

If you delete that passwd file, and restart splunk, it should reset the credentials to admin // changeme.

[mrtolu6]

Thanks that worked!

[jluo_splunk]

mrtolu6, would you mind selecting my answer as the answer if that worked for you? 😄