Tip - Find Jenkins Default Username and Password for AWS Bitnami EC2 AMI

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The AWS Bitnami Marketplace AMI can make the deployment of Jenkins a lot easier. The one area where new users sometimes need help is figuring out the username and password once the EC2 Instance is up and running. It turns out that the password is autogenerated as part of the pre-start routine.

The answer appears on the Bitnami forum here: https://community.bitnami.com/t/bitnami-jenkins-web-ui-gui-user-name-and-password/41115/3 courtesy of vbecerraar .

Alternatively:

  1. Log onto the AMI via SSH

  2. Go to the log folder: type: cd /opt/bitnami/var/log

  3. Get the username . type : sudo more pre-start.log |grep user

  4. Get the password . type: sudo more pre-start.log |grep password

The username will probably be ‘user’, but it’s best to verify by checking the pre-start.log file.

Bitnami_username_capture.png



The password will be shown in the pre-start.log file as well.

Bitnami_password_capture.png