FR: generate a new secret?!

[steadfasterX]

not sure if you like the idea but I have often the need to generate a new splunk secret before actually starting splunk. It annoys me to let splunk generate it as I am using automation (ansible) a lot to bring up splunk installations. so it would be more convenient to have it here, too.
if thats out of your scope I am fine ;) just an idea..

EDIT:

and yes I am aware of:

rotate splunk-secret       		Generate a new splunk.secret (encryption key), and re-encrypt all configuration with the new key.

rotate shcluster-splunk-secret      Generate a new search head cluster common splunk.secret (encryption key), and re-encrypt all configuration with the new key. CAUTION: this command causes the members to be re-added the search head cluster, and might cause scheduled searches to be unavailable until the process completes.

in recent splunk versions (above is from v8.1) ;) still it would be great having it separately from splunk so we would have it before actually installing splunk