TeamCity forgotten admin password - where to look?

Question

I need to recover/reset the admin password for JetBrain\'s TeamCity.

I have full RDP access to the server so no problems there. It\'s just been 2 mo

Answer 1

With TeamCity 5 using MySQL (probably other versions and RDBMs as well, but untested), it's possible to update the password directly via SQL:

mysql> update users set password = md5("mypass123") where username = "bob";

Nevertheless, I'd stick with the CLI versions already mentioned by others if there isn't a good reason not to do so.

Answer 2

Here's what worked for me.

Shut down server services

> cd c:\TeamCity\webapps\ROOT\WEB-INF\lib>

then

> ..\..\..\..\jre\bin\java.exe -cp server.jar ;common-api.jar;commons-codec-1.3.jar;util.jar;hsqldb.jar ChangePassword admin password1 C:\ProgramData\JetBrains\TeamCity\

Without the path at the end, it would fail with:

Exception in thread "main" java.sql.SQLException: Table not found in statement [
UPDATE users SET PASSWORD = ? WHERE USERNAME = ? AND REALM IS NULL]
        at org.hsqldb.jdbc.Util.throwError(Util.java:58)
        at org.hsqldb.jdbc.jdbcPreparedStatement.<init>(jdbcPreparedStatement.ja
va:1833)
        at org.hsqldb.jdbc.jdbcConnection.prepareStatement(jdbcConnection.java:5
80)
        at ChangePassword.main(ChangePassword.java:14)

Answer 3

1. Stop teamcity
2. You should pass path to your buildserver e.g. if you installed build server to dir "c:\.BuildServer"

........\jre\bin\java.exe -cp server.jar;common-api.jar;commons-codec-1.3.jar;util.jar;hsqldb.jar ChangePassword username newpassword c:\.BuildServer

Answer 4

For everyone that may arrive at this article years after the original answer like I just did, there's a built-in super user account, and the password is regenerated every time team city is started, and the password is in the log. You can use this super user to login and reset any passwords. It's super easy.

https://confluence.jetbrains.com/display/TCD9/Super+User

Answer 5

Super user direct URL :

http://servername:port/login.html?super=1

Open TeamCity log folder (Example C: drive: C:\TeamCity\logs) : teamcity-server.log, find the key: “Super user authentication”

[2019-03-04 12:14:30,770]   INFO -   jetbrains.buildServer.SERVER - Super user authentication token: `8347518935696887114` (use empty username with the token as the password to access the server)

Answer 6

In case this helps someone else, whoever installed TeamCity on my server placed the build directory under the Administrator's Profile, not in C:\TeamCity.