How do I reset a user password in hudson? - hudson

Question

I've lost the admin user password on hudson (actually it just randomly stopped working), I can get back in by disabling security (editing ~/.hudson/config.xml) then I can configure hudson, but I can't find any options to add new users or change/reset user passwords - maybe these options don't appear when security is disabled? I was using the matrix-based security. How can I add a new user or reset the password for existing ones?

Answer 1

Here is an article outlining how that is achieved.
The first one: edit the authorization setting in the config.xml file
if you have defined more users in your Hudson and you at least one
user’s password. For example, your user name called peter and you know
the password of the user jack, in this case, just open the
%HUDSON_HOME%/config.xml and find the line:
<permission>Hudson.model.Hudson.Administer:peter</permission>
And add a new line below:
<permission>Hudson.model.Hudson.Administer:jack</permission>
Save your change and restart your Hudson server, then you can login as
jack and change your own password. After then login using your own
account and go to http://your/hudson/configure and change jack back
to his normal authorization setting.
The other way ist just editing your own config.xml, in this case, open
%HUDSON_HOME%/your/config.xml and find the line:
<password>………</password>
The text between the password tag is encoded, so you can’t just enter
your password as plain text here. The easy way for you now is just
remove all the text between that tag, in another word, just let the
password empty.
Hope this helps.

Answer 2

In Hudson 3.0, security is defined in a separate file, hudson-security.xml. Same directory though.
Just edit the <useSecurity>true</useSecurity> entry and specify false.

Answer 3

If you have access to the jenkins files, edit the config.xml.
/var/lib/jenkins/config.xml
Change
<useSecurity>true</useSecurity>
<useSecurity>false</useSecurity>
And comment to
<authorizationStrategy/>
Ref:
http://it.i88.ca/2013/04/reset-password-of-jenkins.html
Greetings!

Answer 4

I use Jenkins, but this should be similar in Hudson. You need to be logged in as a user with administrative permissions, so configuring Hudson to use security is essential. Look for a 'Manage Users' link in the 'Manage Hudson' page (the main configuration page linked from the main page). The 'Manage Users' page should give you a list of users that have been configured for use with Hudson and you should be able to add/edit/delete users from here.
Read this article for more information on configuring security in Hudson.