I infer from that paragraph that you started Jenkins from a command prompt window. If so, then you can define the value for JENKINS_HOME before you run the "java -jar jenkins.jar" command. Jenkins will use the value you defined for JENKINS_HOME.
Jenkins starts initially as "secure by default". The initial administrator password is written to the command prompt window during startup and is also written to the JENKINS_HOME directory as the file secrets\initialAdminPassword. Once you've used that initial admin password to login, it will prompt you to create a new user and assign a password to that user. The post-installation setup wizard <https://jenkins.io/doc/book/installing/#setup-wizard> is the guide for that process. Mark Waite On Sat, Sep 8, 2018 at 1:42 PM Steve Burrus <sburrus...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > *I’m sorry but I haven’t evr even gotten to capture the "Manage Jenkins" > -> "System Information" page. No when I seemed to activate Jenkins in my > command prompt I then went, in my web browser, to the localhost but then I > always get the login page which I really DON’T WANT. * > > > > *Sent from Mail <https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for > Windows 10* > > > > *From: * > > > *Mark Waite <mark.earl.wa...@gmail.com>Sent: Saturday, September 8, 2018 > 2:35 PMTo: jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com > <jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com>Subject: Re: Still Login Problem.* > > > > *When you've reset and done a clean setup, you may want to capture the > "Manage Jenkins" -> "System Information" page to record the value of the > variable "JENKINS_HOME".* > > > > *JENKINS_HOME is the directory which contains the "config.xml" file that I > described earlier. Inside %JENKINS_HOME%\config.xml you'll find the > '<useSecurity>' XML tag.* > > > > *Mark Waite* > > > > *On Sat, Sep 8, 2018 at 1:21 PM Steve Burrus <sburrus...@gmail.com > <sburrus...@gmail.com>> wrote:* > > *Ya I have tried dpoing th at maybe 2-3 times before "start over with a > clean setup." to no avail BUT I will try doing that yet again [if that > helps I don't know]. But no I didn't have any jobs on it. * > > *On Sat, Sep 8, 2018 at 1:31 PM Slide <slide.o....@gmail.com > <slide.o....@gmail.com>> wrote:* > > *Do you have jobs that you want to keep the data and configuration for, or > is the setup pretty fresh? If it's pretty fresh and you are ok with > starting over, you could delete the directory that contains that config.xml > file (JENKINS_HOME) and start over with a clean setup.* > > > > > > > > *-- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Jenkins Users" group.To unsubscribe from this group and stop > receiving emails from it, send an email to > jenkinsci-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > <jenkinsci-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>.To view this discussion on > the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/CABinwmU_NPraYrfp%2B5nP5mrHBFPsk126nAqyEa6OE42Qyp3FXA%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/CABinwmU_NPraYrfp%2B5nP5mrHBFPsk126nAqyEa6OE42Qyp3FXA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>.For > more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>.* > > > > > > *-- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Jenkins Users" group.To unsubscribe from this group and stop > receiving emails from it, send an email to > jenkinsci-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > <jenkinsci-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>.To view this discussion on > the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/CAO49JtFy%2BV-yA86Ja0pFmuAH0dMeP9fxZGZ_Ta1xKJPFYRSjbA%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/CAO49JtFy%2BV-yA86Ja0pFmuAH0dMeP9fxZGZ_Ta1xKJPFYRSjbA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>.For > more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>.* > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Jenkins Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to jenkinsci-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/5b942607.1c69fb81.65ae7.5c27%40mx.google.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/5b942607.1c69fb81.65ae7.5c27%40mx.google.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to jenkinsci-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/CAO49JtGmmrA7pt8mO5%3Dwb%2BaQHayH3g9di1ZWd-eBNAtjnbKzaQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
