How can I find initial password for jenkins? - macos

Question

I already searched the related questions like here;
How do I get initial admin password for jenkins on Mac?
and here;
How to recover Jenkins password
However, I cannot find a solution for my problem.
I am following the instructions to install jenkins on this link;
https://jenkins.io/doc/book/installing/
and I have run the following commands to install and tried to make it run on my local machine (mac os);
docker run \
-u root \
--rm \
-d \
-p 8080:8080 \
-p 50000:50000 \
-v jenkins-data:/var/jenkins_home \
-v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock \
jenkinsci/blueocean
It installs it properly but when I get to the login screen it asks for the initial admin password. Because the installation runs in (-d mode) backend, I cannot see the initial password after the installation completes. When I remove -d for the installation, then the installation does not work.
I also checked the shared folder (User/Shared/Jenkins/Home) directory and there was no secrets folder in it. So I created one manually and followed the instructions (in the answers) on this link again;
How do I get initial admin password for jenkins on Mac?
Afterwards, I removed the related docker process and restarted all the installation process from the beginning but I got the same result.
In this case, how can I find this initial admin password or how can I generate it again?
BTW: I am also checking the logs (where in /var/log/jenkins) but it seems that it stopped writing there after my first install attempt and I also couldn't find the initial password there).

Answer 1

docker exec <container_name> cat /var/jenkins_home/secrets/initialAdminPassword

Answer 2

I tried looking into the container's filesystem, but there's no secrets folder in it. But I found the solution in the jenkins documentation here
Docker outputs the initial secret to the console
To view the console use the command
docker logs <container id of jenkins>
output is somemthing like this:

Answer 3

If you are using Mac and Docker installation for Jenkins follow bellow steps to get initial administer password to start authentication in Jenkins Console. Type below command in Terminal.
(Note: This is working, if you have follow default steps in Jenkins documentation to install Jenkins in Docker environment)
Find the running containers
: docker ps
Copy the running containerID
: docker exec -it <containerID> bash
: cd /var/jenkins_home/secrets
: cat initialAdminPassword
Use secret password showing in terminal and used as initial password for Jenkins Console.

Answer 4

If you have installed Jenkins via docker, then the following command can give you the initial admin password. Assuming your container name/docker image name is jenkins
docker exec `docker ps | grep jenkins | awk '{ print $1}' ` cat /var/jenkins_home/secrets/initialAdminPassword

Answer 5

docker exec $(docker ps -q) cat /var/jenkins_home/secrets/initialAdminPassword

Answer 6

For me username was: admin
and you can find password by:
docker exec jenkins cat /var/jenkins_home/secrets/initialAdminPassword
my container name is jenkins

Answer 7

Can you install docker-compose and docker toolbox on your Mac?
https://docs.docker.com/compose/install/
Try to execute this docker-compose.yml file:
version: '3.1'
services:
blue-ocean:
image: jenkinsci/blueocean:latest
container_name: blue-ocean
restart: always
environment:
TZ: America/Mexico_City
ports:
- 8080:8080
- 50000:50000
tty: true
volumes:
- ./jenkins-data:/var/jenkins_home
- ./sock:/var/run/docker.sock
Only you need to create a folder with a docker-compose.yml file inside and execute the docker-compose up -d command in terminal, then the folders jenkins-data and sock will be created and inside of jenkins-data appear the directory ./jenkins-data/secrets/initialAdminPassword, open this file and copy the content and paste on the input of web view that requires it.