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Renaming etc/passwd to passwd.bak and using user-seed.conf doesn't seem to work and I'm on a mac.

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Solution

@splunk2day,

look here:
https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.1.2/Security/Secureyouradminaccount#Reset_a_lost_pass...

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Solution

@splunk2day,

look here:
https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.1.2/Security/Secureyouradminaccount#Reset_a_lost_pass...

Finally i could hard reset my admin pass from CLI using -

./splunk cmd splunkd rest --noauth POST /services/admin/users/admin "password=new8charpass"

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