prompt for admin user name "Your session is invalid. Please login" How to avoid that?

[sim_tcr]

Hello,

When certain splunk administration commands are executed (eg, offline) sometimes on some servers i get promt for admin user name with message "Your session is invalid. Please login" . Is there any way to avoid that. I do not want to pass user name and password on the command itself.

Any way to increase the timout session on servers to infinite?

Thanks,
Simon Mandy

[gchauhan]

try to use admin credentials of the GUI admin credentials in there hope it helps @sim_tcr 

[jeffland]

Taken from Genti's answer here, you could export the username and password to a local user's variable and use that variable from your command.

[woodcock]

Obviously you are talking about CLI.

[sim_tcr]

yes. 'splunk offline'