Why is the option to change password not active on my Splunk login screen?

[Cvetanka]

I have to change my password to log in Splunk, however, this option is not active on my screen.

[yannK]

also if your instance is setup to authenticate with a third party LDAP/ AD / SAML then you cannot change those users passwords from Splunk.

[vasildavid]

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.

[ngatchasandra]

Hi Cvetanga,

1. 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.

2. 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

1. You can also follow the link: https://answers.splunk.com/answers/834/how-could-i-reset-the-admin-password.html or

https://answers.splunk.com/answers/778/how-can-i-change-the-admin-password-before-splunk-is-started-...

This will help you.