Configuring a Project-based Matrix Authorization Strategy

Project-based Matrix Authorization Strategy is an extension of Matrix-based security. It allows an access control list matrix to be defined for project. This feature is very useful when we want to give access to specific jobs to specific users so that the security of Jenkins is not compromised.

Getting ready

Go to Manage Jenkins | Global Security Configuration.

How to do it...

1. In the Authorization section, select Project-based Matrix Authorization Strategy.
2. Give admin all rights and Save:

3. Go to the incognito window where we logged in using the credentials of Shreyansh.

4. Refresh the page and we will get Access Denied. The reason is that we haven't given any rights to Shreyansh in Project-based Matrix Authorization Strategy:

5. We need to provide overall Read rights so Shreyansh can access the Jenkins dashboard:

6. Now, go to the individual build job as an admin and select Enable project-based security in the job configuration page.

7. Add Shreyansh as...