# Unable to login initially with randomly generated password

**URL:** <https://community.sonatype.com/t/unable-to-login-initially-with-randomly-generated-password/7958>\
**Category:** Best Practices\
**Tags:** nexus-repository\
**Created:** [December 31, 2021, 11:01am UTC](https://community.sonatype.com/t/unable-to-login-initially-with-randomly-generated-password/7958 "2021-12-31T11:01:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![praveenkanjarla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5f9b8f/32.png) [@praveenkanjarla](https://community.sonatype.com/u/praveenkanjarla)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2021, 11:01am UTC](https://community.sonatype.com/t/unable-to-login-initially-with-randomly-generated-password/7958/1 "2021-12-31T11:01:22Z")

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Running Nexus 3.37.2 as a service in k8s cluster  
on setting up the nexus, i’m unable to login with the random generated password  
i copied the generated password from **/nexus-data/admin.password**  
& it’s not accepting, saying wrong password.

FYI in logs there is no errors while creating the pod.