How to unlock jenkins on windows 10

Question

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

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

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.