How do I get initial admin password for jenkins on Mac?

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I installed jenkins by downloading jenkins-2.2.pkg. After the installation is complete, Chrome auto-connected to http://localhost:8080/login?from=%2F and I see the following message:

Unlock Jenkins
To ensure Jenkins is securely set up by the administrator, a password has been written to the log (not sure where to find it?) and this file on the server:

/Users/Shared/Jenkins/Home/secrets/initialAdminPassword

Please copy the password from either location and paste it below.

But I don't have access to secrets folder on my Mac book even when I'm the Admin user.

Please help me on how to find the initial admin password?

Who owns the `/Users/Shared/Jenkins/Home/secrets` folder? It might be sufficient to run a `chown` on it. — TriskalJM, May 10 '16 at 19:27
How do I find out on who is owning the folder? And what is chown? — Srinivasan Ramu, May 10 '16 at 19:54
If you could, please add the solution as an answer and accept it. — TriskalJM, May 10 '16 at 19:59

score 95 · Accepted Answer · edited Sep 17 '17 at 09:12

Navigate to this folder /Users/Shared/Jenkins/Home
Right click on secrets/ folder and select "Get Info"
Scroll down to the right bottom corner of the pop up window and click on the lock image > enter your password > ok
Click on the "+" at the left bottom corner of the pop up window and add the user 4.5 Click on Settings icon - left bottom and Apply changes.
Open the "secrets" folder and find the initialAdminPassword file to get the initial admin password. If you don't have permission to the file, you need to right click on the file and select "Get Info" then repeat step 3 and 4 above to access the file.

score 35 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 22 '17 at 04:01

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Try it

sudo cat /Users/Shared/Jenkins/Home/secrets/initialAdminPassword

and copy the password.

answered Feb 22 '17 at 04:01

Tuan Pham

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Prashanth Sams · Answer 3 · 2019-09-03T17:09:07.437

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If you have installed Jenkins through HomeBrew, check

sudo cat /Users/$(whoami)/.jenkins/secrets/initialAdminPassword

edited Sep 03 '19 at 17:09

answered Sep 02 '16 at 09:26

Prashanth Sams

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I used brew, i don't have .jenkins file. @Prashanth Sams – kamal Feb 02 '17 at 03:50
it is not visible, but there are for me – StefanoM5 Jan 17 '19 at 15:24
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For those who can't able to view .jenkins press Command+Shift+. (dot). Now, you can view all hidden files. – Vijay Jan 03 '22 at 18:05
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That has worked for me. – a.hess Jan 24 '23 at 12:05

score 7 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 05 '17 at 01:17

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I install jenkins by img, use this command to cat password

sudo cat /Users/Shared/Jenkins/Home/secrets/initialAdminPassword

answered Sep 05 '17 at 01:17

zcjlq

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In my case, the path is on my personal folder, not Shared, this for initial user-password value – StefanoM5 Jan 17 '19 at 15:25

score 4 · Answer 5 · answered Apr 02 '20 at 03:49

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If you have installed Jenkins using Docker and you are not able to find the password using the command :

$ sudo cat /Users/Shared/Jenkins/Home/secrets/initialAdminPassword

Then do following steps :

Type in your command prompt : docker ps
Find the running containerID
Type docker exec -it <containerID> bash
Type cd /var/jenkins_home/secrets
Type cat initialAdminPassword

answered Apr 02 '20 at 03:49

adityaatri

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Thank you adityaatri it worked , for windows I had to change the command to docker exec -it 0a15a836309a /bin/bash in cmd window . – Sameera De Silva Sep 02 '20 at 10:58

score 2 · Answer 6 · answered Jun 10 '16 at 10:53

The current user might not have permissions to Secrets folder to access the initialAdminPassword file. So give permission by selecting "Secrets" folder by CMD+ i which launches a new screen and then unlock and then provide required permissions.

Locked file

Unlocked and Access to initialAdminPassword file

score 2 · Answer 7 · answered Mar 02 '17 at 16:35

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Note if you are running Homestead / Vagrant and Ubuntu

sudo cat /var/lib/jenkins/secrets/initialAdminPassword

answered Mar 02 '17 at 16:35

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score 2 · Answer 8 · answered Apr 29 '18 at 02:07

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If you homebrew installed JENKINS, then by default, JENKINS_HOME is at ~/.jenkins This is also the location where you will find you will find your initial password inside the secrets folder.

So: cd ~/.jenkins cd secrets open initialAdminPassword

answered Apr 29 '18 at 02:07

Shripal Modani

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score 2 · Answer 9 · edited Mar 09 '20 at 18:23

If you are using jenkins image from dockerhub repo and create a container then you can get the initial password using:

$ sudo docker exec jenkins_containerid cat /var/lib/jenkins/secrets/initialAdminPassword

OR if installing from jenkins.io docs (https://jenkins.io/doc/book/installing/):

$ sudo docker exec jenkins_containerid cat /var/jenkins_home/secrets/initialAdminPassword

OR you can see the docker logs of container

$ sudo docker logs jenkinscontainerID

score 1 · Answer 10 · answered May 24 '16 at 06:59

ref:http://www.cimgf.com/2015/05/26/setting-up-jenkins-ci-on-a-mac-2/

Make the Jenkins user an admin: sudo dseditgroup -o edit -a jenkins -t user admin
Add the Jenkins user to the developer group: sudo dscl . append /Groups/_developer GroupMembership jenkins
Make the Jenkins user automatically login when the computer is restarted:

Aakash Handa · Answer 11 · 2022-04-21T18:04:27.607

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For mac M1 on BigSur Os, the path I got is:

~/.jenkins/secrets

https://www.jenkins.io/doc/book/installing/macos/

if not there look into /Users/Aakash~/.jenkins/secerts

edited Apr 21 '22 at 18:04

answered Apr 21 '22 at 12:27

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score 0 · Answer 12 · edited Nov 19 '18 at 09:56

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To unlock Jenkins, use this command in your terminal:

$ sudo cat /Users/Shared/Jenkins/Home/secrets/initialAdminPassword

edited Nov 19 '18 at 09:56

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answered Nov 18 '18 at 20:09

Galya Harutyunyan

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score 0 · Answer 13 · answered Dec 02 '20 at 10:17

In my case, I was looking for this on MY MAC, but what you actually have to do is ssh to your docker container.

docker ps

which will display the containers, then copy the id of the container you created,

then do

docker exec -it <paste-id-here> /bin/bash

If that's successful, you will see your terminal change to, then you can run:

cat

score 0 · Answer 14 · answered Nov 29 '21 at 12:27

As per Official Documentation they recommend Homebrew Installer. So if you did Homebrew Installer then check when the installation time it is printed in console or check in the current user jenkins folder.Cmd given below.

sudo cat /Users/$(whoami)/.jenkins/secrets/initialAdminPassword

score 0 · Answer 15 · answered Feb 17 '22 at 06:12

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Open your terminal and type:

sudo cat /var/lib/jenkins/secrets/initialAdminPassword (or the path provided on the website opened).

I tried it from my Ec2 Amazon Instance and it worked!

answered Feb 17 '22 at 06:12

Ernesto Valencia

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score 0 · Answer 16 · answered Dec 21 '22 at 07:19

None of these answers had enough information for me (installed via homebrew on mac). I did not have an initialAdminPassword file. Turns out it was because I ran the executable as a normal user. What I had to do was execute Jenkins from command line using sudo:

sudo jenkins

When I did that, I saw the following:

*************************************************************
*************************************************************
*************************************************************

Jenkins initial setup is required. An admin user has been created and a password generated.
Please use the following password to proceed to installation:

dee34d2b00804123456757ec46d3beef

This may also be found at: /var/root/.jenkins/secrets/initialAdminPassword

*************************************************************
*************************************************************
*************************************************************

Then I just pointed my browser to http://localhost:8080/ and filled out the form displayed there, at which time I could start installing plugins and actually using Jenkins.

Sagar Tripathi · Answer 17 · 2019-02-15T15:07:44.833

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1.Double tap on finder select "Go to folder" enter /Users/Shared/Jenkins/Home

2.Check the "secret" folder , right click and select "get info"

3.Click on "lock" icon and enter admin password and make change in view type (change into user view) after this your folder is accessible .

4.Do same for password text file also

edited Feb 15 '19 at 15:07

answered Feb 15 '19 at 14:54

Sagar Tripathi

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