This plugin allows to create service users in Gerrit.
A service user is a user that is used by another service to communicate with Gerrit. E.g. a service user is needed to run the Gerrit Trigger Plugin in Jenkins. A service user is not able to login into the Gerrit WebUI and it cannot push commits or tags.
This plugin supports the creation of service users via SSH and REST.
To create a service user a user must be a member of a group that is granted the ‘Create Service User’ capability (provided by this plugin) or the ‘Administrate Server’ capability.
The plugin can be configured to automatically add new service users to groups. This allows to automatically assign or block certain access rights for the service users.
For each created service user the plugin stores some properties.
The service user properties are stored in the refs/meta/config branch of the All-Projects project in the file @PLUGIN@.db, which is a Git config file:
[user "build-bot"]
createdBy = jdoe
createdAt = Wed, 13 Nov 2013 14:31:11 +0100
[user "voter"]
createdBy = jroe
createdAt = Wed, 13 Nov 2013 14:45:00 +0100
user.<service-user-name>.createdBy : The username of the user who created the service user.
user.<service-user-name>.createdAt : The date when the service user was created.