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Splunk installation with different user than root

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I am asking this questuion just based on my curosity. We used to install splunk by the user name root, now will create any problem if I create a username called abc and do login with the user abc and install splunk?

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sowings
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Nope, no problems. If you change the user of an existing Splunk install, you'll have to change ownership (chown, or the Windows equivalent) of all of the files. You'll also want to add the --user flag to the splunk enable boot start command.

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sowings
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Nope, no problems. If you change the user of an existing Splunk install, you'll have to change ownership (chown, or the Windows equivalent) of all of the files. You'll also want to add the --user flag to the splunk enable boot start command.

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