Script for Splunk admin password change

[inayath_khanin1]

Hi Folks, 

Can anyone please help me with a script that help to change splunk admin password across 100 servers? It should prompt what password to change with.

Thanks in advance 

[inayath_khanin1]

@codebuilder We are actually looking for a script that can be run one one server to change the password of rest servers. can u pls help us with this

[codebuilder · Accepted solution]

You can use bash or python (amongst others) to create a script that incorporates the API or CLI examples  provided.

[codebuilder]

If you want the user to be prompted you can do this via the CLI (obviously change your user name and admin password):

splunk edit user test_user -force-change-pass true -auth admin:changeme

Or via the API:

curl -k -u admin:changeme https://localhost:8089/services/authentication/users/test_user -d force-change-pass=true

Or if you want to set the new password outright:

splunk edit user <username> -auth admin:<admin_password> -password <password>