jenkins the definitive guide

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Workspace
View and download the workspace contents for a build job. Remember, the workspace
contains source code and artifacts, so if you want to protect these from general access, you
should revoke this permission.

Release
Start a Maven release for a project configured with the M2Release plugin.

Run
This group covers rights related to particular builds in the build history:

Delete
Delete a build from the build history.

Update
Update the description and other properties of a build in the build history. This can be useful
if a user wants to leave a note about the cause of a build failure, for example.

View
This group covers managing views:

Create
Create a new view.

Delete
Delete an existing view.

Configure
Configure an existing view.

SCM
Permissions related to your version control system:

Tag
Create a new tag in the source code repository for a given build.

Others
There can also be other permissions available, depending on the plugins installed. One useful
one is:

Promote
If the Promoted Builds plugin is installed, this permission allows users to manually promote
a build.

7.5.1.3. Help! I’ve locked myself out!


Now it may happen that, during this process, you may end up locking yourself out of Jenkins. This
can happen if, for example, you save the matrix configuration without having correctly set up your

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