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password doesnt work after installing forwarder

bryancampbell
New Member

I am obviously doing something wrong, but this is twice now, i have installed the forwarder for Windows, and changes the splunkd and splunkweb services to use domain credentaisl.

Now my initially configured password doesnt work.

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yannK
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

try the default admin password : "changeme"
and if you need to reset the password, use the method described here : http://answers.splunk.com/answers/834/how-could-i-reset-the-admin-password

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