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

Question

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

Answer 1

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

Answer 2

1. Navigate to this folder /Users/Shared/Jenkins/Home
2. Right click on secrets/ folder and select "Get Info"
3. Scroll down to the right bottom corner of the pop up window and click on the lock image > enter your password > ok
4. 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.
5. 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.

Answer 3

If you have installed Jenkins through HomeBrew, check

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

Answer 4

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

Answer 5

Try it

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

and copy the password.

Answer 6

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