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What is the default password for the delete_admin user

naydenk
Path Finder

What is the default password for delete_admin? Is it safe to reset it from the admin interface?

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yannK
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

The role with deletion permission is not an user.
To use it, Usually an admin temporary makes a role inherit from this can_delete role.
go to manager > account management > roles
(Then removes the inheritance to avoid disastrous mistakes.)

By default nobody inherit from it. And if you delete it, you will have to recreate it using the correct capabilities.

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yannK
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

The role with deletion permission is not an user.
To use it, Usually an admin temporary makes a role inherit from this can_delete role.
go to manager > account management > roles
(Then removes the inheritance to avoid disastrous mistakes.)

By default nobody inherit from it. And if you delete it, you will have to recreate it using the correct capabilities.

naydenk
Path Finder

OK, thank you!

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lguinn2
Legend

The user delete_admin was not created during installation. Only the user admin is created during installation. Therefore, delete_admin does not have a default password. You can reset it using the Manager GUI.

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naydenk
Path Finder

Thanks yannK. I see the role (can_delete) but I also have a user, 'delete_admin', that has the role 'can_delete'. It sounds like it may be something that was created during install? If that is the case, my guess would be it has a default password of some sort, which would be a good idea to reset. Any ideas?

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