diff --git a/.github/actions/start-opensearch-with-one-plugin/action.yml b/.github/actions/start-opensearch-with-one-plugin/action.yml
index b795ae8f61..642264f4ec 100644
--- a/.github/actions/start-opensearch-with-one-plugin/action.yml
+++ b/.github/actions/start-opensearch-with-one-plugin/action.yml
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ runs:
 
     - name: Write password to initialAdminPassword location
       run:
-        echo ${{ inputs.admin-password }} >> ./opensearch-${{ env.OPENSEARCH_VERSION }}-SNAPSHOT/config/${{ env.PLUGIN_NAME }}/initialAdminPassword.txt
+        echo ${{ inputs.admin-password }} >> ./opensearch-${{ env.OPENSEARCH_VERSION }}-SNAPSHOT/config/initialAdminPassword.txt
       shell: bash
 
     # Run any configuration scripts
diff --git a/tools/install_demo_configuration.bat b/tools/install_demo_configuration.bat
index de6e7aea76..7e4683a963 100755
--- a/tools/install_demo_configuration.bat
+++ b/tools/install_demo_configuration.bat
@@ -322,7 +322,8 @@ echo plugins.security.system_indices.indices: [".plugins-ml-config", ".plugins-m
 
 setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
 
-set "ADMIN_PASSWORD_FILE=%OPENSEARCH_CONF_DIR%opensearch-security\initialAdminPassword.txt"
+set "ADMIN_PASSWORD_FILE=%OPENSEARCH_CONF_DIR%\initialAdminPassword.txt"
+set "INTERNAL_USERS_FILE=%OPENSEARCH_CONF_DIR%opensearch-security\internal_users.yml"
 
 if "%initialAdminPassword%" NEQ "" (
   set "ADMIN_PASSWORD=!initialAdminPassword!"
@@ -331,7 +332,7 @@ if "%initialAdminPassword%" NEQ "" (
 )
 
 if not defined ADMIN_PASSWORD (
-  echo Unable to find the admin password for the cluster. Please set initialAdminPassword or create a file {OPENSEARCH_ROOT}\config\initialAdminPassword.txt with a single line that contains the password.
+  echo Unable to find the admin password for the cluster. Please set initialAdminPassword or create a file %ADMIN_PASSWORD_FILE% with a single line that contains the password.
   exit /b 1
 )
 
@@ -350,7 +351,6 @@ if errorlevel 1 (
 set "default_line=  hash: "$2a$12$VcCDgh2NDk07JGN0rjGbM.Ad41qVR/YFJcgHp0UGns5JDymv..TOG""
 set "search=%default_line%"
 set "replace=  hash: "%HASHED_ADMIN_PASSWORD%""
-set "INTERNAL_USERS_FILE=%OPENSEARCH_CONF_DIR%opensearch-security\internal_users.yml"
 
 setlocal enableextensions
 for /f "delims=" %%i in ('type "%INTERNAL_USERS_FILE%" ^& break ^> "%INTERNAL_USERS_FILE%" ') do (
diff --git a/tools/install_demo_configuration.sh b/tools/install_demo_configuration.sh
index 670e03b52a..2efae09a31 100755
--- a/tools/install_demo_configuration.sh
+++ b/tools/install_demo_configuration.sh
@@ -389,7 +389,7 @@ echo 'plugins.security.system_indices.enabled: true' | $SUDO_CMD tee -a "$OPENSE
 echo 'plugins.security.system_indices.indices: [".plugins-ml-config", ".plugins-ml-connector", ".plugins-ml-model-group", ".plugins-ml-model", ".plugins-ml-task", ".plugins-ml-conversation-meta", ".plugins-ml-conversation-interactions", ".opendistro-alerting-config", ".opendistro-alerting-alert*", ".opendistro-anomaly-results*", ".opendistro-anomaly-detector*", ".opendistro-anomaly-checkpoints", ".opendistro-anomaly-detection-state", ".opendistro-reports-*", ".opensearch-notifications-*", ".opensearch-notebooks", ".opensearch-observability", ".ql-datasources", ".opendistro-asynchronous-search-response*", ".replication-metadata-store", ".opensearch-knn-models", ".geospatial-ip2geo-data*", ".opendistro-job-scheduler-lock"]' | $SUDO_CMD tee -a "$OPENSEARCH_CONF_FILE" > /dev/null
 
 ## Read the admin password from the file or use the initialAdminPassword if set
-ADMIN_PASSWORD_FILE="$OPENSEARCH_CONF_DIR/opensearch-security/initialAdminPassword.txt"
+ADMIN_PASSWORD_FILE="$OPENSEARCH_CONF_DIR/initialAdminPassword.txt"
 INTERNAL_USERS_FILE="$OPENSEARCH_CONF_DIR/opensearch-security/internal_users.yml"
 
 echo "Path is $(pwd)"
@@ -402,7 +402,7 @@ if [[ -n "$initialAdminPassword" ]]; then
 elif [[ -f "$ADMIN_PASSWORD_FILE" && -s "$ADMIN_PASSWORD_FILE" ]]; then
   ADMIN_PASSWORD=$(head -n 1 "$ADMIN_PASSWORD_FILE")
 else
-  echo "Unable to find the admin password for the cluster. Please run 'export initialAdminPassword=<your_password>' or create a file {OPENSEARCH_ROOT}/config/initialAdminPassword.txt with a single line that contains the password."
+  echo "Unable to find the admin password for the cluster. Please run 'export initialAdminPassword=<your_password>' or create a file $ADMIN_PASSWORD_FILE with a single line that contains the password."
   exit 1
 fi