I have often found the ssh access to be useful when other kind of authentication has been problematic. Have you seen https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Jenkins+SSH ?
-- Sami 2012/5/2 Anshul <[email protected]>: > Hi, > One of my Jenkins job actually creates a new job using the cli > interface. The creator job (and all other jobs by default) require > authentication to build. > > The creator job calls the jenkins cli to create the new job but it > doesn't make use of the information that a logged in user is actually > running the job and the build fails citing authentication issue for > user anonymous. How can I make sure the cli gets the required > credentials? > > Jenkins Version: 1.446 > > I am using Project Matrix Based Authentication for all the activities > on my Jenkins installation and ideally want to keep any build/create/ > delete actions restricted to the logged in users. The users are the > unix users. > > Thanks, > Anshul
