I am after a better solution for security in Jenkins. After my play around this space, my current solution is to implement the 'Project-based Matrix Authorization Strategy'. I was previously considering running Jenkins behind Apache and control security through Apache. But during my trial with matrix based security, I was able to assign full access to logged in users and block anonymous users from seeing anything on the dashboard except login-page.
Before I proceed with my beta servers, I would like to seek experts advice to understand what I am doing is correct ?or there is a better way to do this. At the moment I have around 30 users created in my system.
If matrix based solution is the best and easiest, I would like to know,
1) Is it possible to group users and assign access based on groups ? So that I don't have to give users on individual basis
2) I also saw a post about 'Role strategy plug-in', but I couldn't see that in my Jenkins. Not sure if this plug-in out of date and/or nomore supported
Thanks in advance.
I'm using the Role Strategy plugin with a LDPA directory and it works well.
You just have to install this plugin on your Jenkins server and to switch from "Matrix-based security" to "Role-Based Strategy".
Next, you will be able to define roles:
And assign them to users (or LDAP groups, if you have a LDAP directory):
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We have Jenkins setup in our organisation with two organisational folders which basically does builds for repo's from two different github organizations.
We use Keycloak to authenticate to Jenkins. (Not sure if that's relevant or not) and we authenticate using openid connect with Keycloak.
I would like to know if it is possible to restrict access for a certain group of users to only be able to view builds on one of the github organizations. So for example if we have two github organizations: mrrobot_org and evilcorp_org, then I would like to be able to make an evilcorp_org_devs_group and add users to that group which would then restrict those developers from only accesing builds from the evilcorp_org github organization.
Someone told me this might be possible to do from Keycloak, but it does not seem likely.
I've tried quite a few things already but from what I've read the best option seems to use this plugin
https://plugins.jenkins.io/role-strategy/
and match the organzation using a regex to match a folder:"Folders can be matched using expressions like
^foo/bar.*".
Any other suggestions how I could do this?
Thanks so much.
For anyone reading this. I ended up using the Folder auth plugin for Jenkins.
I ended up sticking to Keycloak for Authentication, but used the folder auth plugin for Authorization.
So this allows me to restrict access per Jenkins folder. Each folder containing the builds of a given github organization.
The plugin is pretty easy to use. You can check it out here:
https://github.com/jenkinsci/folder-auth-plugin
The docs are here:
https://github.com/jenkinsci/folder-auth-plugin/blob/master/docs/usage.md
I have a server where Jenkins is configured and running as a service. My team is of 8 people who access the Jenkins via browser for performing deployments on demand.
How do get the System properties like the Username or the host name of the System where the Jenkins is accessed.
How do i configure the job so that i get to know who performed the deployment?
NOTE: I do not want to create users for all of them and provide credentials. There will be a unique credentials and everyone uses the same.
Regards
Kaushik
I think there is no way around to create different Users or use #Ian w suggestion.
If you stick to your idea to use only One credential for all user you should consider setting a Parameter Choice for everyone of your 8 People. So everyone pick his/her Name when he/she Starts a Job.
Take a looks at https://st-g.de/2016/12/parametrized-jenkins-pipelines
We cannot provide admin access to all users but need a way to provide script approval access to Non admin users? Any ways of accomplishing this?
At first this page about script-approval could be helpful.
Back to the main topic I thing the best way to achieve this is use Matrix based security Plugin - RunScripts option in Overall section.
Or You can always auto-approve" scripts with the Permissive Script Security Plugin. So it's depends on security policies in your organization.
I am learning Jenkins and i am using version 1.605. I am learning about setting security options in jenkins. I found below options in jenkins configure global security page under the security realms:-
Delegate to servlet container
Jenkins'own user database
LDAP
I want to understand in which scenario, which option should be used?Please help me understand.
The "servlet container" refers to the web server that you are using to host Jenkins, typically Tomcat. The configuration file $CATALINA_BASE/conf/tomcat-users.xml may already be set up and managed by your organization. In this case: "why reinvent the wheel?". Use this if your organization already has a process that manages the Tomcat users configuration. This is also probably the most archaic solution.
The "own user database" is just what it sound like. Instead of relying on something else, Jenkins keeps it's own database of users. You can create and delete users through the Jenkins UI. You can even let new users sign up right from UI. If you don't know what to use, use this one. It's simple and self-contained.
The "LDAP" provides integration with LDAP/ Windows Active Directory. If you are in a corporate/small business environment that already utilizes LDAP for maintaining users and groups, it will be very beneficial to hook into that and off-load user management to the IT team that manages LDAP/AD. Note that unless you are that IT admin, you will need to contact the said admins for connection information/credentials to the LDAP/AD
Slav did a very clear answer.
If you choose the option 2 or 3, you can use the Role Stragegy plugin to create application roles and assign roles to Jenkins users, LDAP users or LDAP static/virtual groups.
If you have a lot of users, this plugin can save your life to assign permissions :)
I don't know squat about TFS, other than as a user who has performed simple check in/outs.
I just installed it locally and would like to do joint development with a friend.
I was having trouble making my TFS web site on port 8080 visible (the whole scoop is here if your interested) and I wonder if it could be related to the fact that TFS is probably using Windows Authentication to identify the user.
Can TFS be set up to use forms authentication?
We probably need to set up a VPN, though that's a learning curve too.
To use TFS, do our machines have to belong to a domain?
We're not admin types, though he is better than me, though I would be interested in any feedback or advice on which path is likely to pan out the best. I already got AxoSoft OneTime working in this type of an environment and it suits us well, but I am tempted at all the bells & whistles with TFS and the ability to tie tracked bug items to code changes.
As far as finding a good way to share code, do sites like SourceForge allow one to keep code secure among members only?
It does not need to be installed in a domain. I'm running TFS at home within a workgroup on a virtual machine.
Create a user on the machine that hosts TFS. Let's assume this machine is named TFS-MACHINE. Grant that user appropriate Team and Project rights.
When connecting to TFS from the remote machine, the user should be prompted for a user ID and password. They should use a User ID of TFS-MACHINE\username and the appropriate password.
Regarding external spots to host code. If you're looking for cheap/free, you can look at something like Unfuddle, which supports SVN and Git.
If you're looking for hosted TFS, the only place I've been able to find thus far is SaaS Made Easy, but they can start getting a bit expensive, depending on the number of users you have.
Keep in mind if you're going to host locally that you'll still need to do things like periodic backups, etc.