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Secure Jenkins with user accounts - Jenkins Tutorial
From the course: Jenkins Essential Training
Secure Jenkins with user accounts
- [Instructor] Jenkins does a pretty good job of providing security out of the box. When a Jenkins server is first launched, it's locked by default, and you need to have the initial admin password to log in. This is useful to prevent anyone from just coming across a newly installed Jenkins and taking control of it. Jenkins also allows you to create user accounts with usernames and passwords. This is a common approach for setting up boundaries for who can log in. But even with these controls in place, there's still a bit of configuration that can be done to make sure that Jenkins is set up for your specific use case. Jenkins can be configured to use different security realms. Using a very brief explanation, a security realm controls how a person is authenticated to access a resource. The default realm is a user database included in the Jenkins server. This is where Jenkins creates the first users with permission to…
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