How to change the initial password of admin user in universal forwarder

release date
2015-10-22
last updated
2015-10-22
version
Splunk Enterprise 6.3
Overview
How to change the initial password of admin user in universal forwarder
Reference information
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The universal forwarder cannot change the password from the Splunk web screen.

To change the initial password of the admin user on the universal forwarder, execute the command to change it.

procedure

Execute the following command.

$SPLUNK_HOME/bin/splunk edit user
-username ユーザー名 -password 新パスワード -auth ユーザー名:旧パスワード

* $SPLUNK_HOME is the installation directory of Splunk.
Path information for default installation
Linux: /opt/splunkforwarder
Windows: C:\"Program Files"\Splunk Universal Forwarder

Command example

  • For Linux
/opt/splunkforwarder/bin/splunk edit user
-username admin -password macnica -auth admin:changeme
  • For Windows
C:\"Program Files"\SplunkUniversalForwarder\bin\splunk.exe edit
user -username admin -password macnica -auth admin:changeme

that's all