Can you clarify the "credentials by mailing list" approach?

If we send out the credentials on a public list, it's pretty close to open
access.

If we send out credentials to contributors privately, we have an additional
hurdle to contributions.

On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 9:12 AM, Tim Armstrong <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Got it.
>
> I think I'd probably be more in favour of handing out login credential to
> contributors on demand (e.g. by mailing a list)  rather than having open
> access, just so we have a clearer idea of who's using it. I don't have a
> strong objection to the alternative.
>
> On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 8:52 AM, Jim Apple <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > How isolated is the Jenkins instance?
> >
> > As far as I know, the workers have little access to the coordinator. See
> > here:
> >
> > https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Slave+To+
> Master+Access+Control
> >
> > This flag is on and there are no whitelisted exceptions.
> >
> > > Does the jenkins user have many privileges on the VM?
> >
> > They have passwordless sudo on the worker
> >
> > > Could it simply wipe
> > > out the job history to destroy the trail?
> >
> > Job history is stored on the coordinator.
> >
> > > Jenkins also presumably has
> > > credentials to make at least some changes to gerrit - are those
> > privileges
> > > restrictive enough that it couldn't cause problems there too?
> >
> > Those are stored only on the coordinator and cannot be used by the
> slaves.
> >
>

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