# Version 9.2.2.20240415 # # This file maintains the credential information for a given app in Splunk Enterprise. # # There is no global, default passwords.conf. Instead, anytime a user creates # a new user or edit a user onwards hitting the storage endpoint # will create this passwords.conf file which gets replicated # in a search head clustering enviornment. # Note that passwords.conf is only created from 6.3.0 release. # # You must restart Splunk Enterprise to reload manual changes to passwords.conf. # # To learn more about configuration files (including precedence) please see the # documentation located at # http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Admin/Aboutconfigurationfiles [credential:::] password = * The password that corresponds to the given username for the given realm. * NOTE: The realm is optional. * The password can be in clear text, however when saved from splunkd the password will always be encrypted.