I've set up a new Jenkins server earlier today.
When I open localhost:8080/jenkins, it prompts me for a username and password.
I enter mine in, and from there I can view my dashboard, including the projects I've set up, and their artifacts.
However, I would like people to be able to download the artifacts of my projects, without an account.
But that's the only thing I would like to allow them to do. View my artifacts, and nothing else, unless they have an account.
So, how do I set this up?
The answer is actually pretty simple.
Go to Manage Jenkins, then Configure Global Security.
Then check:
Enable security
Jenkins' own user database (in Access Control -> Security Realm)
Logged-in users can do anything (as well as Allow anonymous read access) [both are in Access Control -> Authorization]
Once that's done, other people should be able to view your artifacts.
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Facing issue related to adding new users in Jenkins as I am not able to see Manager user options. Jenkins is using ldap for authentication. I believe I don't have admin access to add new user and our old admin has left the team. Is there any way get all admin access from server itself ?
This is a common problem when making changes to secure Jenkins. Whenever you make a mistake and get locked out you may end up having to disable the security in the config.xml. Look for the following line and set it to false. Ofcourse, make sure to make a backup before changing this as the whole security configuration will be erased after you restart Jenkins
<useSecurity>true</useSecurity>
I'm hosting a project on my Jenkins server. That project has a GitHub repo and I have it set up so it automatically builds new commits. In order for that to work, I need to input credentials for a github account that has full access to the repo.
The problem is, that if I want him to add his login info to the credentials list, I'd have to give him acces to all credentials on the server (I don't want that).
I tried using the credentials under "{username}" > "Credentials", but those didn't show up in the project setup (even with 100% access to everything on the server).
Is there a way for the user to store his credentials and use them for the project without giving him full access to all credentials on the server?
Add the user's credentials under Global security and then allow project based Matrix Authorization Strategy per project as shown:
I found the answer in this mailing list entry:
In short: You need to
install and activate the Authorize Projects Plugin,
enable "run as specific user" strategy in global security settings,
enable this for the project in question.
This allows you to use the credentials for this specific user.
Enabling ssh-agent is the final step to make this work conveniently.
Is there a way to use the credential store with the CVS plugin to access a CVS repository? Looking for a way to store credential once and have one place to change it, despite many jobs making use of it.
The CVS plugin doesn't use the credentials store directly (although there are potential plans to move to this in a future overhaul of the plugin), but it does have a concept of global credentials which should provide what you need. The reason for having something separate from global credentials was that CVS introduced this prior to the credentials plugin being available and the steps have never been taken to try and perform a migration.
To use this credential feature, ensure you have version 2.4 or above of the CVS plugin, goto your 'Manage Configuration' screen, scroll down to the CVS section and click the 'Add' button next to the 'Authentication' option. Once you've added any credentials in here, go back to the jobs you're wanting to use the global credentials on, check the CVS root matches what you put in the authentication section and that it doesn't contain a username and then run your job. When running, the console should then show 'Using globally configured credentials for...' when trying to connect to CVS.
On my Jenkins build server, I want to set an Authentication Token so that only users that know the token can fire off builds. (As described here.)
This doc page says that it should be configurable under my job's "Build Triggers" configuration.
However, my server has no such fields, and I'm running the latest version (1.546). Mine looks like this:
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As you can see, this doesn't really look like the docs say it should.
How can I set this token?
You're missing the Trigger builds remotely (e.g., from scripts) Build Trigger:
This is only visible with Security enabled. To get this option from a freshly downloaded 1.546 WAR, I changed Configure Global Security from Anyone can do anything to at least Logged-in users can do anything. For ease/speed of testing, under Security Realm I selected Jenkins’ own user database and Allow users to sign up:
You can go to http://Jenkins-IP/jobs/me/configure to check and change your API access token. Also check whether the user you intend to use has necessary permissions to execute the builds in Manage Jenkins>Configure Global Security
Each jenkins user gets an authentication token - applicable since version 1.426 (more).
You can see yours, provided you are logged in your jenkins server, at http://your.jenkins.server/me/configure
(press 'show API token' button)
Then you can copy and paste it in your scripts (e.g. see here for an example usage).
When I go to mydomain.example:8080 there is no authorization mechanism by default. I have had look at the configuration area but cannot find anywhere to add a basic username and password
Go to Manage Jenkins > Configure Global Security and select the Enable Security checkbox.
For the basic username/password authentication, I would recommend selecting Jenkins Own User Database for the security realm and then selecting Logged in Users can do anything or a matrix based strategy (in case when you have multiple users with different permissions) for the Authorization.
Assuming you have Manage Jenkins > Configure Global Security > Enable Security and Jenkins Own User Database checked you would go to:
Manage Jenkins > Manage Users > Create User
Try deleting the .jenkins folder from your system which is located ate the below path.
C:\Users\"Your PC Name"\.jenkins
Now download a fresh and a stable version of .war file from official website of jenkins. For eg. 2.1 and follow the steps to install.
You will be able to do via this method
You need to Enable security and set the security realm on the Configure Global Security page (see: Standard Security Setup) and choose the appropriate Authorization method (Security Realm).
Depending on your selection, create the user using appropriate method. Recommended method is to select Jenkins’ own user database and tick Allow users to sign up, hit Save button, then you should be able to create user from the Jenkins interface. Otherwise if you've chosen external database, you need to create the user there (e.g. if it's Unix database, use credentials of existing Linux/Unix users or create a standard user using shell interface).
See also: Creating user in Jenkins via API
If installed as an admin, use:
uname - admin
pw - the passkey that was generated during installation