Where does UnrealEngineLauncher.exe store the saved password credentials?

I’m rolling out Unreal 4 to a college, and need for every user profile to log in automatically with the same credentials.

The username and password will be saved ok if I check the box and the launcher will autologin on that profile, but it doesn’t carry across to other profiles. Copying the appdata folder will populate the username ok, but it still requires me to enter the password on all other profiles.

I’ve tried copying the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Epic Games\ registry key across but that also doesn’t save the password.

Where are the password credentials stored?

Thanks

Phil W

Hi Phil,

Our apologies for the delayed response. Before anything else, I encourage you to take a look at the Academic Installation guide we have recently posted. And please be aware that we are actively working to improve the process.

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As for your original question, the login info is stored here:

C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\UnrealEngineLauncher\Saved\Config\Windows\Game.ini

Although we do encourage academic users to go into Offline Mode so they don’t have to worry about accounts.

I hope this helps.

Hi Stephen

Thank you, that’s excellent. I didn’t realise you could run the engine in offline mode, so that’s what we’ll do. Interestingly, I did copy that config file across to all profiles (I copied the whole Appdata\Local\UnrealEngineLauncher folder) and it didn’t remember the password, only the username.

Anyway, our teaching staff are really enthused about Unreal 4, so thank you again.

Phil