Splunk: Failed to open splunk.secret Access Denied

[Jvlemmings]

I am running Splunk on Windows 10.
I start splunk using:

C:\Program Files\Splunk\bin\splunk.exe start

first I need to adjust my port as 8000 is already in use. So when connecting I see the 404 error.

After that i try to run again:

C:\Program Files\Splunk\bin\splunk.exe start

I get the following error:
Failed to open splunk.secret
Some passwords will not work. errno = Access is denied
Unable to read splunk.secret.file
Operation "os h_fopen"failed in C:\wrangler-2.0\build-src\kimono\src\libzero
conf-mutator-locking.c:313, conf_mutator_lock<>: No Error

[Richfez]

Check your services for splunk to be running. If it is, stop it.

As a backup way to get that accomplished you can check task manager and kill any splunk executables you find. That's sort of mean, so the "service method" above is the preferred way. 🙂

A reboot would also take care of that most likely. Since you've reconfigured Splunk to use a different port, when you restart everything will come up fresh on the new port.

[Richfez]

All assuming, of course, that you don't just need the answer woodcock provided. 🙂

[woodcock]

You need to start splunk as an admin user. Your user does not have access to the files that splunk needs to run.

[kannappac]

can you pls advise, how to start splunk as an admin user.