Rocket Surgery

As a contrast to my previous post regarding securing Subversion, I thought I would go through how to secure a Hudson installation using Active Directory for authentication and authorization.

Steps:

1. Download the Active Directory plugin for Hudson.
2. Install the plugin.
   1. Click on Manage Hudson from the sidebar, then Manage Plugins from the admin menu
   2. Upload the plugin you previously downloaded.
   3. Restart Hudson.
3. Enable the plugin
   1. Click on Manage Hudson from the sidebar, then Configure System from the admin menu.
   2. Check the box that says “Enable Security”.
   3. Then select “Active Directory” under Security Realm.
   4. I recommend selecting “Matrix Based Security” as your authorization scheme.  This enables you to add role names or user id’s to the list, and simply check off what functions they are allowed to perform.

That’s it.  Easy peasy.

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