'User is missing the Overall/Read permission' error with Jenkins GitHub OAuth Plugin

I'm using the github oauth plugin for our logins but for all of our users in the Organisation I get an error:

Access Denied

<user> is missing the Overall/Read permission

I have tried everything I can possibly think of to try to make this work and I'm probably going to fallback to making everyone an admin user, which i would prefer not to do.

Any advise would be appreciated.

This is how I resolved the authentication problem:

1. Edit config.xml file, e.g.

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

2. Change useSecurity element's value to false, e.g.

      <useSecurity>false</useSecurity>
   

3. Remove authorizationStrategy block

4. Restart Jenkins: /etc/init.d/jenkins restart.

5. Access Jenkins through URL as usual and reconfigure security again.

Have you followed this step, from the plugin page?

Control user authorization (i.e. who is allowed to see the jobs and build them) using the Github Commiter Authorization Strategy

Also, make sure you actually allow authenticated users to access Jenkins

• Under Jenkins global configuration, under Authorization, add user/group called authenticated
• Give that group Overall Read permission
• The group should show up with a "group" icon (two users), as opposed to single user icon.

I had the same problem with "... is missing the Overall/Read permission" on Jenkins (1.651.2) with activated Credentials Plugin.

But it was my own failure: I only configured the user on project side (by credential plugin) but missed to configure the global security.

So I fixed it by selecting:

> Jenkins -> Manage Jenkins -> Configure Global Security

And did setup missing global settings (or project matrix based one)

reset from <useSecurity>true</useSecurity> to <useSecurity>false</useSecurity> in config.xml and set the permission again.

Edit file /var/lib/jenkins/config.xml and add the following lines :

  <authorizationStrategy class="hudson.security.ProjectMatrixAuthorizationStrategy">
    <permission>hudson.model.Hudson.Read:john.smith</permission>
  </authorizationStrategy> 

Restart Jenkins

What I did when I got this error is to edit config.xml as mentionned by other users and correctly re-add my username in LOWERCASE in "configureSecurity" Jenkins' page. I was using "KrustyHack" when adding permissions but it didn't work. I had to add "krustyhack" instead, and it worked.

I hope it helps.

I had the same problem here, but it affected only some users, not all of them. Anyway, you should check public organization membership : documentation of the plugin states that "You have to be a public member of the organization for the authorization to work correctly." (https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Github+OAuth+Plugin).

Follow instructions from GitHub (https://help.github.com/articles/publicizing-or-hiding-organization-membership/) in order to make organization membership public, and this might fix your issue.

Also check the case user names in the authorizationStrategy element. I made my new user's name lower case and restarted the service and it the error went away.

Fix it by these 2 shell commands on the server (sudo permission is required):

sudo ex +g/useSecurity/d +g/authorizationStrategy/d -scwq /var/lib/jenkins/config.xml
sudo /etc/init.d/jenkins restart

This will remove useSecurity and authorizationStrategy lines from your config file.

See also: Disable security at Jenkins website

We hit this same error when a github organization administrator changed the organization's settings for "Third-party access" to "restrict third-party application access". Reverting to the previous settings within the github organization resolved the problem.

See github oauth-app-access-restrictions for details on how to configure that properly.

The assignment of roles to users is stored in config.xml file. Add the ID of the user directly to the role and then restart Jenkins.

In my case, I have a role named editor and a bunch of users assigned to the role.

 <role name="editor" pattern=".*">
     <permissions>
         <...>
         <permission>hudson.model.Item.Create</permission>
         <permission>hudson.model.Item.Workspace</permission>
         <permission>...</permission>
     </permissions>
     <assignedSIDs>
         <sid>bob</sid>
         <sid>alice</sid>
         <sid>**newuser**</sid>   
     </assignedSIDs>
  </role>

The matrix security is not terribly clear. I am a member of a specific group in our org that has admin privileges however I am also an authenticated user. I would think that the one group super-cedes the other however I have to have both in order to actually log into the system and be admin. It's screwed up IMO.

• Go to $JENKINS_HOME (linux, jenkins in windows), and find config.xml file.
• Open this file in the editor. (take backup of .jenkins home)
• Look for the <useSecurity>true</useSecurity> element in this file.
• Replace "true" with "false"
• Remove the elements authorizationStrategy and securityRealm
• Start Jenkins

go to your-jenkins-host:port/role-strategy/assign-roles and configure roles for the user

I had the same problem before, your OAuth application need your organization owner's approve, then the OAuth Plugin can access the private data in it

I am using Crowd 2 plugin and I have the same problem. I fixed it by downgrading OWASP Markup Formatter Plugin from varsion 1.2 to version 1.1 and then changing Markup Formatter in Configure Global Security value to Raw HTML, before it was Plain text.

I had exactly the same problem and adding the plugin Role Strategy Plugin fixed the problem.

All I had to do was install the plugin, create two groups - admin / developer and then add users to the groups.

A much much better solution than recreating the whole permissions matrix :)

I had a similar problem I was not able access Jenkin account and the system was locked. I had only an error message. "Access Denied "

When I tried to reinstall Jenkins then it prompted to Repair option. By clicking Repair option it fixed the problem.

I found it in C:\ProgramData\Jenkins\.jenkins

Jenkins Version: 2.319.2

Just use Jenkins > Configure Global Security bottom page matrix to provide permissions to the user (start w/ read)

I edited the /var/lib/jenkins/config.xml file and replaced the

<authorizationStrategy>...</authorizationStrategy> 

with

<authorizationStrategy class="hudson.security.FullControlOnceLoggedInAuthorizationStrategy">
    <denyAnonymousReadAccess>true</denyAnonymousReadAccess>
</authorizationStrategy>

It is the default settings after installation. Then restart the jenkins service.