How to Retrieve Splunk admin password

[ramprakash]

Hi,

In our Splunk Architecture Indexers were setup in 2015 and now we need to put manual detention on one of the indexers but I am not able to do this as I don't know the admin password.

Can someone please help to retrieve.

B.R

[Vardhan]

Hi,

change the admin password and restart the service then you can able to put the server in manulal detention.Please follow the below steps.

open the command prompt/terminal of your system. Find the passwd file( $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/passwd ) of Splunk and rename it as passwd.bk.

mv /opt/splunk/etc/passwd  /opt/splunk/etc/passwd.bk

Create a .conf file names user-seed.conf  in your $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/local directory.

 cd /opt/splunk/etc/system/local/user-seed.conf

[user_info]

USERNAME=admin

PASSWORD=<new_password>

/opt/splunk/bin/splunk restart