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I enabled jenkins security thinking it would prompt me to create an account. I tried deleting and editing my config.xml file in c:/program files/jenkins but i'm not sure how to restart jenkins without having access.

Any help would be appreciated.

I'm running Jenkins on a windows server, recently updated to the latest version.

Why is this off topic?? Seems like a reasonable, programming related, question to me. — rtcarlson, Aug 24 '14 at 16:51

score 22 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 01 '17 at 12:48

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If you don't have a lot of other configuration that you'd like to save, you can just delete %JENKINS_HOME%/config.xml and restart Jenkins to disable security.

Otherwise, edit config.xml and set the values inside the <useSecurity> tags to false, then restart Jenkins.

edited Jun 01 '17 at 12:48

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answered May 01 '13 at 18:59

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i tried deleting the config.xml in c:/program files/jenkins/ and restarting the jenkins service in windows but i was still locked out. – sstynes May 01 '13 at 19:04
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In addition I had to remove the authorizationStrategy and securityRealm elements. See: https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Disable+security – akiraspeirs Jun 15 '15 at 23:36

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered May 01 '13 at 21:36

I had this exact issue today on my windows jenkins server.

Just removing the xml file and restarting did not work for me either. I had to:

Stop the service.
Check taskmanager to ensure the process is gone.
Either edit the Config.XML file and change the useSecurity false or delete the config.xml file.
Now start the service again

score 1 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:10

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You can try: How to restart Jenkins manually? or kill the process in taskmanager or do a taskkill in windows shell.

Here are the instructions to restart from command line:

Open Command Prompt.

Type one of the following: without qoutes

To stop a service, type:

net stop 'service'

To start a service, type:

net start 'service'

Also I think you may be looking in the wrong folder. Do you have a config.xml in

C:\Users\yourUserName\.jenkins?

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answered May 01 '13 at 18:56

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killed the process in taskmanager still locked out of jenkins. Is there something else i need to do besides editing the config.xml? – sstynes May 01 '13 at 19:01
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is this line: 'true' changed to false? – PirateDave May 01 '13 at 19:03
like @gareth_bowles said it should be whatever your %JENKINS_HOME% environment variable is. I put the path above because that's usually what it defaults to – PirateDave May 01 '13 at 19:11
I don't have a config in .jenkins should i? – sstynes May 01 '13 at 19:15
According to the docs: https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Administering+Jenkins there should be one in there if that is your jenkins home directory. you have to check the environment variable to be sure – PirateDave May 01 '13 at 19:23
where would i find the environment variable? – sstynes May 01 '13 at 19:29
from command line just type `SET` to list them all. – PirateDave May 01 '13 at 19:36

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