I have to change my password to log in Splunk, however, this option is not active on my screen.
also if your instance is setup to authenticate with a third party LDAP/ AD / SAML then you cannot change those users passwords from Splunk.
Assuming you have a Splunk Enterprise license, one of the capabilities associated with a user's role is the "change_own_password" capability. If a user's role does not have that capability, they should not be able to change their own password.
Hi Cvetanga,
If you are in splunk free, there is no authentication available in the Free version, so no password can be set. You may use firewalls and/or proxies to limit access to Splunk instead.
on the other hand, you can use the command line like follow if you want to change an admin user password:
./splunk edit user admin -password newPassword -role admin -auth admin:changeme
This command changes the admin password from changeme
to newPassword
.
Note that the passwords with special characters that would be interpreted by the shell (for example $ or !) must be either escaped or single-quoted:
./splunk edit user admin -password 'newpass$' -role admin -auth admin:changeme
or
./splunk edit user admin -password 'newpass\$' -role admin -auth admin:changeme
This will help you.