This extension point indeed is designed to let you retrieve existing jenkins user from SCM events and not create duplicates.
https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Additional+Identities+Plugin let you manually set such SCM identity to existing jenkins users, but if you have some alternate algorithm to resolve them from email that's a better option. see https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-10258 2014-12-11 8:20 GMT+01:00 Gavin <[email protected]>: > Hey, > > I'm working on writing a new plugin to hook up jenkins to our internal > company authentication system. I've gotten the Security Realm working, but > I'm curious how exactly the User.CanonicalIdResolver stuff works. > > I'm trying to support mapping new users created by the git plugin to our > internal setup. > > So looking at > > https://github.com/jenkinsci/git-plugin/blob/cb6f13a3e3158332f76a45e853b3766fe83d5828/src/main/java/hudson/plugins/git/GitChangeSet.java#L254 > > I figure if I enable creating accounts based on email, then > User.CanonicalIdResolver's resolveCanonicalId method will pass in an email > or my normal username. Then I can do a lookup if the idOrFullName contains > a @ symbol (or a regex or something). > > Is that the right use of this function? Will that prevent the creation of > the [email protected] accounts? > > Gavin > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Jenkins Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/ebbf1b0c-f371-4011-9a10-f0e9aaa7213b%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/ebbf1b0c-f371-4011-9a10-f0e9aaa7213b%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/CANMVJz%3DphepbrYCJ-f9qUg4oNzo3pAq-VVFwwMebNY668vpQAg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
