Why am I not able to change Splunk password?

[splunkis0927]

While trying to change password on a Splunk HF, and getting below error

/opt/splunk/bin/splunk edit user admin -password new_passowrd -role admin -auth admin:changeme

---> "Couldn't complete HTTP request: Connection reset by peer error"

Your help would be much apprecaited 

[SanjayReddy]

Hi @splunkis0927 

try this

splunk edit user <username> -auth admin:<admin_password> -password <password>

Ex:
/opt/splunk/bin/splunk edit user admin -auth admin:changeme -password new_passowrd

[splunkis0927]

looks still the same .

is this SSL related issue ?

[SanjayReddy]

Hi @splunkis0927 

which splunk version are you using?. are you seeing any ERROR OR WARN messages in splunkd.log

I used same command , I am able to update password in splunk 9.0.1

meantime you can use following URL to update the admin password

https://splunkonbigdata.com/how-to-reset-the-forgotten-password-of-admin-in-splunk/ 

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