As a Jenkins administrator, how do I get a user's API token without logging in as them?

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Patrick Szalapski picture Patrick Szalapski · May 4, 2016 · Viewed 11k times · Source

As an administrator, how do I get an API token for a user other than myself, without logging in as them? When I visit the user configuration page, all I see is that "Token is hidden", and I cannot change it either.

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Patrick Szalapski picture Patrick Szalapski · May 4, 2016

There is a Jenkins System Property, jenkins.security.ApiTokenProperty.showTokenToAdmins . You need access to the master/OC process startup to change it.

Documented at the bottom of https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Features+controlled+by+system+properties

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