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How to change password using CLI in splunk

vin02
Path Finder

How to change password using CLI . We are using script(splunk edit user admin -password -role admin -auth admin:changeme ) to change the password.After the command password getting encryped but when we are trying again to login,again we are getting "changeme" as password?

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adonio
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not sure why @somesoni2 comment is not an answer...

 splunk edit user admin -password newPassowrd  -auth admin:changeme 

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adonio
Ultra Champion

not sure why @somesoni2 comment is not an answer...

 splunk edit user admin -password newPassowrd  -auth admin:changeme 

highsplunker
Contributor

hello. guys i don't understand. in order to change splunk admin pwd i need to know splunk admin pwd ? i don't get it...

somesoni2
Revered Legend

Are you specifying the password in the command?

splunk edit user admin -password newPassowrd  -auth admin:changeme 

dslife_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

For the paranoid among us, you might want to follow this with either history -c to clear all your history or history -d <linenum> to delete the line with the password from your history file.

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koshyk
Super Champion

or easier way is to put these lines into a script and call the script and delete the script afterwards
This way it won't show in history of commands.

bjoernhansen
Path Finder

The easiest way is actually to put a space in front of the command. That shouldn't log it to history.

rchudzinski
Explorer

note: in my testing this behavor is specific to bash on linux.

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