Setting up Hudson on Debian

Installation

% wget http://hudson-ci.org/debian/binary/hudson_1.320_all.deb
% sudo dpkg --install hudson_1.320_all.deb
% sudo apt-get update
% sudo apt-get install -f

% sudo /etc/init.d/hudson restart

% w3m http://example.com:8080/

Configuration

• Manage Hudson > Manage Users > Create User
  jdoe, mmajor, ...

• Manage Hudson > Configure System
  [v] Enable security

  • Security Realm:
    (*) Hudson's own user database

    [_] Allow users to sign up
    

  • Authorization:
    (*) Matrix-based security
    • Anonymous: -
    • jdoe: Overall: Read
    • mmajor: Overall: Administer, Read, ...

Known Problems

• Security Realm: LDAP
  => Seems not working for me
• Security Realm: Unix user/group database
  => SEGV

Project Configuration

• New Job
  
  • Job name: Foo
    (*) Build a free-style software project ...