Gerrit: use LDAP auth and have a gerrit-local account for Jenkins

Question

We are the new gerrit 2.2.1 server using LDAP authentication in our corporate environment. We also have a Jenkins server working as a local UNIX jenkins user, which I want to get with gerrit and post build results in gerrit.

We don’t have a jenkins LDAP account, and even if we did, the system group wouldn’t give out passwords for system accounts, so I can’t access the web interface, create an account and add jenkins' s ssh key. How can I add a jenkins account to gerrit that jenkins can use? We already have several people registered with Gerrit, so I need to be careful with any operations.

Answer 1

A little more Google searches found a Paulo Pires blog post that led to the use of Gerrit create-account .