Jenkins User, Credential, and Permission Management Guide

User Management

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

By default, Jenkins database storage is used.

You can choose to integrate LDAP service or GitLab service (requires plugin installation).

1.1 View Users

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

1.2 Create User

1.3 Delete User

1.4 Update User

Credential Management

Credentials can store database passwords, GitLab password information that require encryption.

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.

Permission Management

Permissions default to Role-Based Strategy; other methods are shown in the image.

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 for a project or group of projects.

Slave roles: add users or groups for a node or group 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