Jenkins - Project matrix based strategy

In this next article of Jenkins authorization ,we will see how the project based matrix authorization can be implemented in Jenkins. The difference between a matrix and project based authorization are in the matrix based users with permissions can be able to perform certain actions and in the case project based authorization, there will be...

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Jenkins authorization - Matrix based Strategy

Allowing what users can do when then login to a Jenkins server is quite important when running jenkins server in production. Jenkins does provide multiple ways of authorization. When we go to the "Manage Jenkins" -> Configure Global security, under the Authorization tab we can see the available authorization strategies as below,  In...

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Jenkins - Unix users/Groups

Authentication is one of the internal feature available in Jenkins. Jenkins does have its own internal database for holding user name and passwords. Jenkins also provides a way to allow login using underlying operating system usernames. This will allow users to login using their system login credentials. This uses Pluggable Authentication...

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