Enterprise Login Help

[DaltonCarmon]

I am trying to learn Splunk Enterprise. I created the account, logged in, no problem. I downloaded the demo data and did some stuff with that. This is over a few days. Finally today, I was not able to login. It said my login info was incorrect. 
I figured I had messed the password somehow, and reset it by going to Command Line and using command "del /f /q "C:\Program Files\Splunk\etc\passwd"

Now on the Splunk Enterprise Page there is a note saying 'No users exist. Please set up a user'. 

How?

And have I lost the demo date?

[kiran_panchavat · Accepted solution]

@DaltonCarmon 

• When you change the Splunk password, either via the GUI or via the CLI, the $SPLUNK_HOME\etc\passwd file is updated and thereafter user-seed.conf is ignored.
• However, if $SPLUNK_HOME\etc\passwd is ever deleted, user-seed.conf will again specify the default admin login password.

Place user-seed.conf in C:\Program Files\Splunk\etc\system\local (not default). Files in local override default and are meant for custom configurations.

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Admin/User-seedconf 

To configure the default username and password, place the user-seed.conf file in
$SPLUNK_HOME\etc\system\local. You must restart Splunk for these settings to take effect.

Note: If the $SPLUNK_HOME\etc\passwd file exists, the configurations in user-seed.conf will be ignored.

[PickleRick]

You need to create user-seed.conf

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Admin/User-seedconf