Sounds like it may be stuck in government_emulation mode. Can you try rebooting into another country? :)
On Mon, 2012-09-10 at 08:44 +0200, Andreas Schilling wrote: > hi everyone! > > we're facing the problem that our Jenkins instance keeps forgetting > user rights quite regularly. has someone faced this problem as well? > it's like that: at some point suddenly people come up to my desk and > tell me that they can't run/edit/delete/whatever their assigned jobs > anymore. > when I look into the rights assignment (we use the roles/rights plugin > btw, but it also happened using the standard built in rights > management) the rights of that user are still assigned. > They just seem to become ignored. > Deleting the rights for that particular user and reassigning helps. > What botheres me is that it seems totally random when it happens. > Also, using different casing with the login names (e.g. if we have a > user John Doe we'd have the variants "jdoe" and "JDoe") randomly fixes > the problem. sometimes we need to assign it to jdoe again, sometimes > to JDoe to make it work. For login Jenkins seems to be case > insensitive anyway to our knowledge. > There's only one thing I *could* imagine it has something to do with: > we're reusing also auto generated users (that is, from SCM checkouts) > because we don't want to need our developers to remember another login > name for our Jenkins instance than their regular domain login of our > company. Maybe for some odd reason that can cause the rights to be > forgotten when checkouts happen? > > any help is highly appreciated. the overhead generated by having to > fix the rights issues is growing and growing as more projects are put > onto Jenkins. > > kind regards, > > Andreas Schilling > CAE Processes & Data Management > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > Dipl. Inf. Andreas Schilling > Senior Software Architect > > TWT GmbH > Science & Innovation > Bernhäuser Str. 40 - 42 > 73765 Neuhausen > > Tel: +49 - 7158 - 17 15 - 673 > E-Mail: andreas.schill...@twt-gmbh.de > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > www.twt-gmbh.de > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Geschäftsführung: Dimitrios Vartziotis, Joachim Laicher (stv.) > Registergericht: Amtsgericht Stuttgart, HRB Nr. 212778 > Umsatzsteuer: ID-Nr.: DE147841145 > --------------------------------------------------------------------
