Locked yourself out of Jenkins?

Posted: February 13, 2012 | Author: | Filed under: Development | Tags: , | 29 Comments

Removed all permissions from your account did you? Save it did you?  Feeling a bit stupid?

Yeah, me too!

First steps

SSH to your server and stop Jenkins

/etc/init.d/jenkins stop

Now modify the config XML

sudo vi /var/lib/jenkins/config.xml

You now have two options to regain access

Yeehaw way

Turn security off and remove the <authorizationStrategy> node

<useSecurity>false</useSecurity>

Now restart Jenkins and head over to your admin UI to resecure it quick before the trolls get in.

/etc/init.d/jenkins start

Like a boss way

If you want to be safe and not open up a security hole at all, you can add the security permissions into the config XML manually. Just replace USERNAME with own

<authorizationStrategy class=”hudson.security.ProjectMatrixAuthorizationStrategy”>

<permission>hudson.model.Computer.Configure:USERNAME</permission>
<permission>hudson.model.Computer.Connect:USERNAME</permission>
<permission>hudson.model.Computer.Create:USERNAME</permission>
<permission>hudson.model.Computer.Delete:USERNAME</permission>
<permission>hudson.model.Computer.Disconnect:USERNAME</permission>
<permission>hudson.model.Hudson.Administer:USERNAME</permission>
<permission>hudson.model.Hudson.Read:USERNAME</permission>
<permission>hudson.model.Hudson.RunScripts:USERNAME</permission>
<permission>hudson.model.Item.Build:USERNAME</permission>
<permission>hudson.model.Item.Configure:USERNAME</permission>
<permission>hudson.model.Item.Create:USERNAME</permission>
<permission>hudson.model.Item.Delete:USERNAME</permission>
<permission>hudson.model.Item.Read:USERNAME</permission>
<permission>hudson.model.Item.Workspace:USERNAME</permission>
<permission>hudson.model.Run.Delete:USERNAME</permission>
<permission>hudson.model.Run.Update:USERNAME</permission>
<permission>hudson.model.View.Configure:USERNAME</permission>
<permission>hudson.model.View.Create:USERNAME</permission>
<permission>hudson.model.View.Delete:USERNAME</permission>
<permission>hudson.scm.SCM.Tag:USERNAME</permission>

</authorizationStrategy>

Now restart Jenkins and sit back with a smug grin.

/etc/init.d/jenkins start


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Open mailto: links in Gmail

	Posted: January 24, 2011 | Author:  | Filed under: Tech  | Tags: , , ,   | Leave a comment
	
If you’re a Windows user, use Gmail and like me are sick of mailto: links opening Outlook this could save you any more of those argggggggh moments.


DISCLAIMER: If you don’t know how to modify the registry, you probably shouldn’t be doing it. If you do it, you do so at your own risk.


Update the registry value at:


HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\mailto\shell\open\command


to be:


“C:\Users\[YOUR_USERNAME_HERE]\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe” http://mail.google.com/mail?extsrc=mailto&url=%1


or if you use Windows Server 2003 like me:


“C:\Documents and Settings\[YOUR_USERNAME_HERE]\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe” http://mail.google.com/mail?extsrc=mailto&url=%1




UPDATE: Someone has pointed out that there’s a Chrome extensions for that :


https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dgkkmcknielgdhebimdnfahpipajcpjn






		



		
		

	
Removing sites from Google Search

	Posted: January 13, 2010 | Author:  | Filed under: Uncategorized  | Tags: ,   | Leave a comment
	
If, like me, you hate experts-exchange.com results appearing in your google search results, you can use this bookmarklet to remove them.


javascript:(function(){


var query;
var regexS = "[\\?&]"+"q"+"=([^&#]*)";
var regex = new RegExp( regexS );
var results = regex.exec( window.location.href );
if( results == null ){query = "";}
else{query = results[1];}
query =  query + " -site:experts-exchange.com";
document.location = "http://www.google.com/search?q=" + query;


})();