Chapter 3: Managing Jenkins – Users, Credentials, and Permissions

Chapter 3: Managing Jenkins (Users, Credentials, Permissions)

1. User Management

Configure user access entry: System Management → Global Security Configuration.

By default, Jenkins uses its own database for storage.

Optionally integrate LDAP or GitLab services (requires installing the appropriate plugin).

1.1 View Users

Using Jenkins' proprietary database as an example, the user management entry: System Management → Manage Users.

1.2 Create User

1.3 Delete User

1.4 Update User

2. Credential Management

Credentials can store encrypted database passwords, GitLab password information, etc.

Credential types:

2.1 View Credentials

Credentials → System → Global Credentials

2.2 Create Credential

2.3 Delete Credential

2.4 Update Credential

2.5 Move Credential

Credentials support multiple domains and can be moved to other domains.

3. Permission Management

Permissions default to Role‑Based Strategy; other methods are shown in the diagram.

3.1 Manage Permissions

System Settings → Manage and Assign Roles → Manage Roles

Global roles: add users and groups, assign which group a user belongs to.

Project roles: add users or groups to a specific project or set of projects.

Slave roles: add users or groups to a specific node or set of nodes.

3.2 Global Permissions

Credential parameters, string parameters, password parameters, boolean parameters, file parameters, text parameters, runtime parameters, option parameters.

3.3 Project Permissions

3.4 Permission Assignment

System Settings → Manage and Assign Roles → Assign Roles