HudsonPrivateSecurityRealm.createAccount('admin', 'mypassword') HudsonPrivateSecurityRealm hudsonPrivateSecurityRealm = new HudsonPrivateSecurityRealm(true, true, null) Don't forget to customize this user with the username/password that you would like. This code will create the admin user into the Jenkins Internal Database with the password mypassword. After this, you can change again to use Active Directory as Security Realm and use the fall-back user.Īnother possibility is to execute the Groovy code below under Manage Jenkins -> Script console. This will allow you to create a new user with the password that you would like. In order to create this user, you can go to Manage Jenkins -> Configure Global Security -> Security Realm -> Jenkins’ own user database. It ONLY allows you to have a SINGLE fallback user who must be previously created in Jenkins side. This feature DOES NOT synchronize users in the Active Directory server and the Jenkins Internal Database.

In order to configure this new feature you should enable *Use Jenkins Internal Database* in the AD configuration under Manage Jenkins → Configure Global Security and specify a SINGLE user by its username.

The password of this user is automatically synced with the Jenkins Internal Database by this feature.

On this way, this admin user can be used to continue administering Jenkins in case of communication issues, where usually you were following the link Disable security.

Since the version 2.5 of the AD plugin, you can define a user to fall back in case there is a communication issue between Jenkins and the AD server.

In order to correctly use this feature, you should be logged-in into the instance and the cache should be disabled. Since the version 2.5 the AD plugin adds a ManagementLink to report a Health Status about the Domain and Domain controllers.

Update jenkins.xml Active Directory Health Status Jenkins recognizes all the groups in Active Directory that the user belongs to, so you can use those to make authorization decisions (for example you can choose the matrix-based security as the authorization strategy and perhaps allow 'Domain Admins' to administer Jenkins). Jenkins then uses DNS SRV records and LDAP service of Active Directory to authenticate users.

If Jenkins is running on a non-Windows machine (or you specify one or more domains), then you need to tell Jenkins the name of Active Directory domain(s) to use.

Jenkins uses ADSI to figure out all the details, so no additional configuration is required.

If Jenkins is running on a Windows machine and you do not specify a domain, that machine must be a member of the domain you wish to authenticate against.

This plugin internally uses two very different implementations, depending on whether Jenkins is running on Windows or non-Windows and if you specify a domain. With this plugin, you can configure Jenkins to authenticate the username and the password through Active Directory.

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