Disabling Jenkins security during chef provisioning

[Farrukh Najmi]

Hi Guys, I am trying to setup Jenkins using the chef recipe at https://supermarket.chef.io/cookbooks/jenkins. 

I would like to provision jenkins plugins using the CLI but have run into a bootstrapping issue. 

Seems the default installation uses a strict config.xml that requires <useSecurity>true</useSecurity>. 

This means I cannot use the CLI to install plugins during provisioning because I cannot do so as anonymous user. 

I tried updating the config.xml file to have:

 <useSecurity>false</useSecurity> 

But it seems that upon "service jenkins restart" my config.xml file gets reverted to its original value. Any suggestions on how top work around this?

[Farrukh Najmi]

I would be grateful if someone that knows Jenkins internals could comment on this post. I need to know how to avoid Jenkins setting "<useSecurity>true</useSecurity>" on first startup. If there is a known issue here I would appreciate a issue link. If there should be an issue filed please let me know and I will do so. Thanks.

[Daniel Beck]

Try setting the system property jenkins.install.runSetupWizard to false.

https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Features+controlled+by+system+properties

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[Farrukh Najmi]

Confirming that "setting the system property jenkins.install.runSetupWizard to false" did the trick for me. Thanks very much Daniel Beck for helping me out.

On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 1:28 PM, Daniel Beck <m...@beckweb.net> wrote:

Try setting the system property jenkins.install.runSetupWizard to false.

https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Features+controlled+by+system+properties

> On 22.02.2017, at 22:24, Farrukh Najmi <farruk...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Guys, I am trying to setup Jenkins using the chef recipe at https://supermarket.chef.io/cookbooks/jenkins.
>
> I would like to provision jenkins plugins using the CLI but have run into a bootstrapping issue.
>
> Seems the default installation uses a strict config.xml that requires <useSecurity>true</useSecurity>.
> This means I cannot use the CLI to install plugins during provisioning because I cannot do so as anonymous user.
>
> I tried updating the config.xml file to have:
>
>  <useSecurity>false</useSecurity>
>
> But it seems that upon "service jenkins restart" my config.xml file gets reverted to its original value. Any suggestions on how top work around this?
>
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Farrukh