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I installed jenkins on my window 10 machine by using the msi I downloaded. It installed fine and has now launched the browser prompting me to unlock jenkins with the initialadminpassword. I can't find this file anywhere. I looked in the install directory C:\Program Files (x86)\Jenkins and I have checked the log files and no password was written to it. I even did a search on my whole C: for initialadminpassword and nothing came up. I do have a file called secret.key in my Jenkins install directory but the key in this file isn't working. Any ideas on how I can get around this would be very helpful

Thanks

Andrew Gray
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user3803807
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  • Possible duplicate of [How to "Unlock Jenkins"?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35960883/how-to-unlock-jenkins) – Yogesh_D Jun 15 '17 at 05:58

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In the Jenkins Home directory there should be a secrets subfolder. In that directory there should be a file called initialAdminPassword (no extension).

This file contains the password it is referring to.

Andrew Gray
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I found the long password in this path C:\Program Files\Jenkins\jinkins.err, in the jinkins.err file all the logs are recorded, so if you screw down slowly you can find the password being generated by the system.

Dharman
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Peter Nkolo
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In addition to "How to “Unlock Jenkins”?", I use a groovy script in order to make sure an admin account was created.

That means:

  • I copy the groovy script in <Jenkins>/ref/init.groovy.d/security.groovy
  • I launch jenkins.war with -Djenkins.install.runSetupWizard=false

In that script, replace the path of the files with the username/password by a Windows path one:

def user = new File("/run/secrets/jenkins-adm-name").text.trim()
def pass = new File("/run/secrets/jenkins-adm-pass").text.trim()

That way:

  • no wizard
  • one admin account with a username/password of my choosing.
VonC
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I was faced with the same issue in windows 10, following the below steps, it's working fine.

  1. Unlock Jenkins

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  1. Open Command Prompt Run as Administrator

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  1. Check and Go Junking Installed Location in Command Prompt

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  1. Opens the jenkins.err.log file

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  1. Find the password

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Raja Rama Mohan Thavalam
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Jenkins do this because it want to ensure Jenkins is securely set up by the administrator , So you cannot open this file direct you must going step by step to the path it given to you . C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\systemprofile.jenkins\secrets\initialAdminPassword

  1. Go to : C:\WINDOWS\ .
  2. Go to : system32
  3. .......
  4. .......

Continue tracking path

And you will found it .

Abd Abughazaleh
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Open command prompt with admin privilege (i.e, "Run as Admin"). And then navigate to the folder as mentioned in the Jenkins localhost web page. And then run the following command: notepad initialadminpassword

this will display the password and then you can copy-paste it.

Kishan
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if you use visual studio code

Go to container

Files -> var -> jenkins_home -> secrets -> initialadminpassword

Berhan Ay
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