Splunk Enterprise

Enterprise Login Help

DaltonCarmon
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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?

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kiran_panchavat
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@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.
 
 
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.
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kiran_panchavat
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@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.
 
 
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.
Did this help? If yes, please consider giving kudos, marking it as the solution, or commenting for clarification — your feedback keeps the community going!

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