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Hello, If I wanted to deploy out a large number of forwarders, what is the best practice to change the default splunkd password?

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asked 07 Dec '11, 10:06

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If you are talking about setting an initial password at installation time, I guess that you could add

<path>/bin/splunk edit user admin -password <your new passswd> -auth admin:changeme

to your install/post-install script. However this depends on how you choose to deploy and on what platform. The bigger issue is how to change it at a later date. Unfortunately there is no safe way of doing it via the DeploymentServer. Neither can you upgrade the forwarder that way.

Sorry,

Kristian

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answered 02 Feb, 09:13

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