Installation

lost admin password

davop
New Member

I checked the forums as my 60 day enterprise licence expired and I like to convert to the free perpetual licence. But splunk won't let me log on saying it expired and I forgot my administration password. How do I fix this?

 

thanks

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renjith_nair
Legend

You can reset from the server by using

./splunk cmd splunkd rest --noauth POST /services/admin/users/admin "password=<your password>"

You must restart Splunk Enterprise after making this change.

 

 

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isoutamo
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Hi

here is link to documentation how to create / change admin password. 
https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.0.5/Security/Secureyouradminaccount

r. Ismo 

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