How to change password using CLI in splunk

[vin02]

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?

[adonio · Accepted solution]

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

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

[highsplunker]

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]

Are you specifying the password in the command?

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

[dslife_splunk]

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.

[koshyk]

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]

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

[rchudzinski]

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

[cult_hero13]

Even then, the HISTCONTROL variable has to be set before running the command you don't want showing in history.  Also, contrary to what I keep reading from Google results, this variable doesn't seem to be automatically set, or at least not on the various Linux distros I've used.