How to create and add users to a group in Jenkins for authentication

Question

I choose to use  Jenkins s own user database  security realm for user login as I couldn t use LDAP in my company   And Google s OpenID has issue when you decided to change the hostname or port number to something else   And I use  Project-based Matrix Authorization Strategy  schema for my security   But I don t seem to able to create my own group  and add users to the group to manage the permission

User · Answer

You could use Role Strategy plugin for that purpose  It works like a charm  just setup some roles and assign them  Even on project-specific level

User · Answer

I installed the Role plugin under Jenkins-3 5  but it does not show the  Manage Roles  option under  Manage Jenkins   and when one follows the security install page from the wiki  all users are locked out instantly  I had to manually shutdown Jenkins on the server  restore the correct configuration settings   me is happy to do proper backups  and restart Jenkins   I didn t have high hopes  as that plugin was last updated in 2011

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According to this posting by the lead Jenkins developer  Kohsuke Kawaguchi  in 2009  there is no group support for the built-in Jenkins user database  Group support is only usable when integrating Jenkins with LDAP or Active Directory  This appears to be the same in 2012   However  as Vadim wrote in his answer  you don t need group support for the built-in Jenkins user database  thanks to the Role strategy plug-in

[security] How to create and add users to a group in Jenkins for authentication?

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