Jenkins Git Plugin showing Unknown user for all recent changes

[Anthony Hunter]

Hi Team,

I have a Jenkins server version 1.623 running under WebSphere Liberty Profile. We are using LDAP for authentication and all authenticated users from LDAP are in a AimUsers group. You need to log into Jenkins with your LDAP account and Configure Global Security uses LDAP with Matrix-based security authorization.

We are running Jenkins jobs against several GIT repositories, none of which are connected to this LDAP authentication. Some are open source projects, etc.

When we look at the recent changes view in jobs building from the GIT repositories, all the changes show as:

#51 (17-Aug-2015 15:38:18)

— unknown / detail

The unknown user link shows as:

Jenkins User Id: unknown

Groups:

• AimUsers
• ROLE_AIMUSERS

Which seems to indicate the users are being looked up in LDAP and are showing as unknown.

If I go to the asyncPeople view, I can see that all the users from the GIT repositories were correctly brought down, I can see the Userid and name from GIT.

Is there some way to fix this issue? I do not want the Git Plugin to use anything from LDAP.

Cheers...

Anthony

[Anthony Hunter]

This is definitely a problem with the Git Plugin to use LDAP to lookup user information about commits. We need to stop this from occurring. Git Plugin should not lookup anything from the global security. Know how to do this? Any ideas?