TeamCity forgotten admin password - where to look?

Question

I need to recover/reset the admin password for JetBrain\'s TeamCity.

I have full RDP access to the server so no problems there. It\'s just been 2 mo

Answer 1

For TeamCity 6.5.4

From a command prompt in the [TeamCity install folder]\webapps\ROOT\WEB-INF\lib:

..\..\..\..\jre\bin\java -cp server.jar;common-api.jar;commons-codec-1.3.jar;util.jar;hsqldb.jar ChangePassword admin NewPassword

My username was 'admin' in my case (I think I set it during installation but I can't be sure).

I ommitted the path to TeamCity argument, it's smart enough to use the correct path (mine was c:\users\administrator.BuildServer)

When I provided the (wrong) path to TeamCity as an argument I received this message:

Using TeamCity configuration directory path: c:/TeamCity/.BuildServer
Exception in thread "main" java.sql.SQLException: Table not found in statement [UPDATE users SET PASSWORD = ? WHERE USERNAME = ? AND REALM IS NULL]
    at org.hsqldb.jdbc.Util.throwError(Util.java:58)
    at org.hsqldb.jdbc.jdbcPreparedStatement.(jdbcPreparedStatement.java:1833)
    at org.hsqldb.jdbc.jdbcConnection.prepareStatement(jdbcConnection.java:580)
    at ChangePassword.main(ChangePassword.java:14)

In case this confuses other people too.