"The only thing missing is that they don't automatically have access to 
newly created projects, which seems a very unusual requirement (and 
surprising to your users?)."

Sorry, this was unclear. This is what I'm currently seeing (Demo user is 
seeing new projects), but *not *what I want. I'll look into the settings 
you mentioned and see what I can figure out.

On Friday, December 12, 2014 11:32:36 AM UTC-6, Daniel Beck wrote:
>
> Overall/Read does not give them access to any project (just Jenkins 
> itself). So give the demo user 'Overall/Read' globally, as well as 
> 'Job/Read' (or just 'Read') for the specific projects. Do not give them 
> 'Job/Read' globally. 
>
> The only thing missing is that they don't automatically have access to 
> newly created projects, which seems a very unusual requirement (and 
> surprising to your users?). You can use Create Project Advanced Plugin to 
> give config access to a newly created project to its creator if that's what 
> you need. 
>
> Alternatively, you could give them 'Job/Read' globally, and then configure 
> the projects  to not inherit permissions from their parent (added in a 
> recent plugin version IIRC). But that's likely going to be rather annoying 
> and error-prone. 
>
> On 12.12.2014, at 18:17, [email protected] <javascript:> 
> wrote: 
>
> > As far as I can tell, if I am using the built in project based security, 
> I HAVE to give users overall read permissions, then in the security for a 
> particular project, I can modify the settings? This seems really dumb. What 
> I want to do is have a "Demo" user, who can see nothing but the projects I 
> make available to them, but by default when I create a new project they can 
> see it. If I take away overall read permissions, then it seems project 
> specific read permissions won't work. I can't find a way to do this without 
> going into each project, adding the demo user and taking away read 
> privileges. I'm hoping I'm just misunderstanding something. I plan to use 
> the role strategy plugin long term, but I am just trying to get things up 
> and running right now. 
> > 
> > Suggestions? 
> > 
> > Maybe rather than trying to decipher what I have written above, it's 
> better to just describe what I want to do. I want new users to, by default, 
> see nothing unless specific projects are made available to them. I haven't 
> found a way to do this because it seems they need the overall read 
> permission to see anything. 
> > 
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