Forget username & password- How do I reset?

[paragpatwardhan]

Hi Team,

I have forgotten your username or password. Please help me how to reset password in splunk enterprise.

[SanjayReddy]

Hi @paragpatwardhan 

By looking at screenshot you are using Splunk on windows system

please follow below steps to reset password
go to  <SPlunk installation directory>\Splunk\etc\ 

under this location file called passwd 


rename it to passwd.backup 

go to following location 

<SPlunk installation directory>\Splunk\etc\system\local

create new file user-seed.conf  its shoul look like this 

tip: copy any existing file in same location and paste in samelocation it will create duplication file and try renaming it to user-seed

inside user-seed file 

add following contents 

[user_info]
USERNAME = admin
PASSWORD = <newpassword>

and restart splunk from cmd 

<SPlunk installation directory>\Splunk\bin

splunk restart 

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Regards,
Sanjay Reddy

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