Can't use Nexus Repository Manager 3.0 default admin user

Question

Just installed Nexus 3.0.0-03, started up, followed the doc, but can't login with default admin/admin123.

The only error I can see is the login refusal message:Incorrect username or password, or no permission to use the application.

Exhale

Check your logs, it sounds like something is wrong with the install. – Inkhorn

logs seems "normal", no error reporting in any case – Exhale

Are you sure your keyboard is not switched to some other language or something like that? And if you're on Windows, did you install it to "program files" or somewhere else? – Copulative

yes, everything is normal, except that I can't login. What would be interesting is to know how to create another admin from the configuration files. – Exhale

Answer 1

user name is admin

There is password in /nexus-data/admin.password path in your nexus host.

cat /nexus-data/admin.password

you must change your password at first login

also If you implement nexus through docker, you should use command below:

docker exec -it <container_name_or_ID> cat /nexus-data/admin.password

Kirbykirch

Seems to be the sonatype-work folder, at least in 3.45.0 on Mac. – Culpable

Answer 2

You cannot create another admin user via configuration (without going deep down the rabbit hole), the initial user admin/admin123 should work.

Vogue

Answer 3

Faced the same problem.

Steps I took to resolve it:

1. Open the admin.password file inside sonatype-work>nexus3 and copy it's contents.
2. Paste the copied value from step 1(from the admin.password file) into the password field. Enter 'admin' for the username.

Slosh

Answer 4

Look into location:

/home/[yourHomeDirName]/sonatype-work/nexus3/admin.password

Zoril