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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]>Sent: Saturday, September 8, 2018 > 2:35 PMTo: [email protected] > <[email protected]>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 <[email protected] > <[email protected]>> 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 <[email protected] > <[email protected]>> 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 > [email protected] > <[email protected]>.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 > [email protected] > <[email protected]>.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 [email protected]. > 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 [email protected]. 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.
