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
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I just installed Jenkins in my machine running Ubuntu.
But when I access http://localhost:8080/ jenkins asks me for my username and password... but I have no idea what they are!
How can I log in Jenkins? (Sorry for the noob question, first time using Jenkins)
Any help is welcome!
Edit: So far I got this:
I can remove security by changing the config.xml setting
<useSecurity>true</useSecurity>
to
<useSecurity>false</useSecurity>
And now I can access my Jenkins... But I still dont know how to create a user =/
in jenkins go to Manage Jenkins > Configure Global Security and select the "Enable Security" check box.
select "Jenkins Own User Database" for the security realm and then select "Logged in Users can do anything" or a matrix based strategy (If you have multiple users with different permissions) for the Authorization.
Once you log in Jenkins as admin, Manage Jenkins > Configure Global Security and select the "Enable Security" check box. select "Jenkins Own User Database" for the security realm under access control and then select "Logged in Users can do anything" under Authorization and Save it.
click on Manage jenkins>>Manage User >> Create User
Complete the details.
Jenkins asks me for my username and password... but I have no idea what they are!
It depends how you configured Jenkins Access Control/Security Realm in your Configure Global Security page which determines the user authentication method, whether to use Jenkins own independent user database or external database (such as LDAP, Active Directory, Unix NIS, etc.).
If its using its own database, you can try to decrypt Jenkins passwords from credentials.xml. Otherwise disable useSecurity in your config.xml file, restart Jenkins and follow the steps. You should be asked to provide the initial password from the initialAdminPassword file (if you don't, make sure you've changed the right file and restarted Jenkins correctly).
To create user, you need to go to select your authentication method in Configure Global Security and create user either externally or if you've selected Jenkins’ own user database and tick Allow users to sign up, then hit Save button which would allow you to create user from the Jenkins interface.
Login to your Jenkins server via web URL. (http://jenkins_ip or jenkins_url:8080)
Jenkins >> Manage Jenkins >> Manage Users >> Create User >> Provide the username, password, email & click on Create User.
To edit or reset or modify the password of the Jenkins' own user database users,
Jenkins >> Manage Jenkins >> Manage Users >> Click the user-id from the existing user list >> Configure >> Save
You should find a file in secrets folder called initialAdminPassword with the info
Steps to create a new user
Login into Jenkins
Go to Manage Jenkins
Go to Create Users
Enter all the details – Username, Password, Confirm Pwd, FullName, Email
Select Create User
This LINK has detailed steps on how to create Jenkins user.
Here is the summary:
After setting
<useSecurity>false</useSecurity>
Restart Jenkins:
sudo systemctl restart jenkins
Click on People on the left-hand navigation menu.
Click on the Admin. (Skip and move on to step 4 if you don't have any user).
Delete the user account.
Navigate to Jenkins / Manage Jenkins.
Click on Configure Global Security
Check the Enable Security check box. (If you don't have this item, skip and move on to next and you will able to create/add user)
Under Security Realm, select Jenkins’ own user database
In the Authorization section, select Logged-in users can do
anything.
Unselect Allow anonymous read access.
Click Save to save your changes.
By default Jenkins uses it's own database for user management.
Go to People on Jenkins dashboard to see Users that you have, if you are not able to find an option to add user there, don't be disheartened, read on.
Go to Manage Jenkins and scroll down to bottom, second last option should be Manage Users.
By default every logged-in user can do anything, to change this, go to Manage Jenkins -> Configure Global Security -> Access Control -> Authorization -> Matrix-based security
AT THIS POINT IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO, PLEASE DON'T MAKE ANY CHANGES. DON'T SAVE OR APPLY.
I have multiple users on a Jenkins server, each with their own credentials for external secured servers needed to run their builds. I am using the credentials plugin to manage the stored credentials. Currently, when a user configures a project, they can use anyones credentials for doing external jobs. I need to make it so that each user only sees the credentials they own when they configure jobs on the jenkins server. How would I do this?
The Folders plugin allows to limit the scope of credentials to a specific folder.
If you're fine with restricting access of different users to different folders (e.g., with the Role Strategy plugin), then this could be a solution.
Just create the folder, enter the folder, then select the "Credentials" link on the sidebar. A new link should appear called "Folder" click that and then define your credentials. Jobs in other folders will not be able to use those.
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:
.
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).