how to recover the splunk admin username and password?

Posted: April 22, 2013 in splunk
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what is splunk?  check this website for more details

http://www.splunk.com

if you forget the splunk admin username and password.. follow these steps to recoverImage

Go the folder

C:\Program Files\Splunk\etc  and find the file passwd and rename to passwd.bak

Imageafter you have renamed the file, go to services.msc from the run command and stop the services related to splunk : splunkd and splunkweb and restart again

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Now start splunk application and provide the username admin and password changeme

that;s all done!

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