Usually they are in /var/log I believe. Look for auth.log or something similar
Sent from my Windows Phone From: Lewis, Eric Sent: 6/8/2012 7:33 AM To: jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com Subject: AW: Jenkins CLI user gets locked in Active Directory Oh... :-) Well, I'm not really a Linux guru, so could you tell me where I find those logs? (Also, I'm not root either) Best regards, Eric -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Alex Earl [mailto:slide.o....@gmail.com] Gesendet: Freitag, 8. Juni 2012 16:23 An: Lewis, Eric; jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com Betreff: RE: Jenkins CLI user gets locked in Active Directory I was meaning the logs on the Linux machine. Sent from my Windows Phone From: Lewis, Eric Sent: 6/8/2012 7:06 AM To: jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com Subject: AW: Jenkins CLI user gets locked in Active Directory Ok, I'll have to check (on Monday) with our Windows admins, since I don't have access to those logs. Best regards, Eric -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Alex Earl [mailto:slide.o....@gmail.com] Gesendet: Freitag, 8. Juni 2012 16:00 An: Lewis, Eric; jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com Betreff: RE: Jenkins CLI user gets locked in Active Directory Can you check the logs for authentication and see if AD is being tried before the key based auth? Sent from my Windows Phone From: Lewis, Eric Sent: 6/8/2012 6:32 AM To: jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com Subject: AW: Jenkins CLI user gets locked in Active Directory Sorry! :-) Yes, Jenkins is running on Red Hat Linux (apparently Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.8 (Tikanga)) Best regards, Eric -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com [mailto:jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com] Im Auftrag von Slide Gesendet: Freitag, 8. Juni 2012 15:30 An: jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com Betreff: Re: Jenkins CLI user gets locked in Active Directory Is this running on Linux? More information about your platforms and such would be useful. On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 5:58 AM, Lewis, Eric <eric.le...@ipi.ch> wrote: > Hi > > We have a user called Service_Build which is used for issuing Jenkins CLI > commands (either in bash or in Jenkins). > This user is defined in Active Directory, which is what we use for > authentication. So normally, I can log in as this user and I have > administrator rights in Jenkins. > > I followed the documentation in the Jenkins wiki and (with help from Rob > Mandeville) managed to authenticate the Service_Build user with > public/private key credentials. So that part works well. > > However, it looks like Jenkins is still trying to authenticate that user with > Active Directory, because the user is locked in Active Directory after a > number of CLI commands (eight in our case). > Should I have created the private key using the Active Directory password? Or > how can I prevent that Active Directory locking? > > Best regards, > Eric -- Website: http://earl-of-code.com
