Locked out of Jenkins

jenkins, security

Solution

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.

Problem

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.

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