TeamCity- Recover Admin Password

The trials and tribulations of this world are beyond me. Sometimes, a simple gesture can save your life. I lost(forgot, forgive my small brain it has to keep up with a day job) my TeamCity login details. Searching online will lead you to this place Stackoverflow Post.

The solution there is mighty correct barring two things. One, your TeamCity data directory path is likely to C:\ProgramData\JetBrains\TeamCity\ on a windows box and not C:\users\foo\TeamCity. Second, you need to run CMD as admin. So,

Step 1 Stop TeamCity service ( either through services.msc or the bat files ).

Step 2  Open CMD as ADMINISTRATOR
(don't forget the admin part you will go bonkers trying to figure out what is happening) and go to C:\TeamCity\webapps\ROOT\WEB-INF\lib

Step 3 type -cp server.jar; hsqldb.jar ChangePassword USERNAME PASSWORD C:\ProgramData\JetBrain\TeamCity

If all is successful then you password has been reset and you can login. Here's hoping to a few hours saved for anyone who comes around to reading this.

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