Open timja opened 8 years ago
See https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-15063. Essentially, this would require an incompatible change.
Instead you can create a checkbox to fallback momentary into Jenkins user database. I think this might be possible.
According to https://plugins.jenkins.io/active-directory the fallback-user is available since 2.5.
In my corporation, all activedirectory account are setup to have a password that expire every 40 days.
This include the account used as bind account for querying activedirectory with active-directory-plugin.
When the password is changed, if I'm not currently logged in Jenkins, I have no way to get back logged-in in order to change the password. The only workaround I found is to stop jenkins, set useSecurity to false in config.xml, restart it and reconfigure the authentication using new password. This is not very convenient.
I have two ideas of feature that can solve this problem:
Originally reported by fievez, imported from: Provide a way to get back into Jenkins when active directory bind password expire