I've run jenkins on a single master for sometime and recently added the first jenkins agent. I'm trying to setup the agent-master access control (manage jenkins -> configure global security -> Agent Master Security Rules can be tweaked here , url: https://<hostname>/administrativeMonitor/slaveToMasterAccessControl/rule/ )

I try to add a file access rule because I use the SSH publisher and the agent needs to access an SSH key in the master.

When I click the "Update" button I get the java exception below. Even if I make no changes to that page and click the button I get the same exception.

Please advise. Thank you!

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Stack trace

java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: -1 at java.lang.AbstractStringBuilder.charAt(AbstractStringBuilder.java:237) at java.lang.StringBuilder.charAt(StringBuilder.java:76) at jenkins.security.s2m.AdminWhitelistRule.doSubmit(AdminWhitelistRule.java:165) at java.lang.invoke.MethodHandle.invokeWithArguments(MethodHandle.java:627) at org.kohsuke.stapler.Function$MethodFunction.invoke(Function.java:396) at org.kohsuke.stapler.Function$InstanceFunction.invoke(Function.java:408) at org.kohsuke.stapler.interceptor.RequirePOST$Processor.invoke(RequirePOST.java:77) at org.kohsuke.stapler.PreInvokeInterceptedFunction.invoke(PreInvokeInterceptedFunction.java:26) at org.kohsuke.stapler.Function.bindAndInvoke(Function.java:212) at org.kohsuke.stapler.Function.bindAndInvokeAndServeResponse(Function.java:145) at org.kohsuke.stapler.MetaClass$11.doDispatch(MetaClass.java:535) at org.kohsuke.stapler.NameBasedDispatcher.dispatch(NameBasedDispatcher.java:58) at org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.tryInvoke(Stapler.java:747) Caused: javax.servlet.ServletException at org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.tryInvoke(Stapler.java:797) at org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.invoke(Stapler.java:878) at org.kohsuke.stapler.MetaClass$2.doDispatch(MetaClass.java:219) at org.kohsuke.stapler.NameBasedDispatcher.dispatch(NameBasedDispatcher.java:58) at org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.tryInvoke(Stapler.java:747) at org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.invoke(Stapler.java:878) at org.kohsuke.stapler.MetaClass$4.doDispatch(MetaClass.java:280) at org.kohsuke.stapler.NameBasedDispatcher.dispatch(NameBasedDispatcher.java:58) at org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.tryInvoke(Stapler.java:747) at org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.invoke(Stapler.java:878) at org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.invoke(Stapler.java:676) at org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.service(Stapler.java:238) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:790) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.handle(ServletHolder.java:873) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1623) at hudson.util.PluginServletFilter$1.doFilter(PluginServletFilter.java:154) at jenkins.security.ResourceDomainFilter.doFilter(ResourceDomainFilter.java:76) at hudson.util.PluginServletFilter$1.doFilter(PluginServletFilter.java:151) at net.bull.javamelody.MonitoringFilter.doFilter(MonitoringFilter.java:239) at net.bull.javamelody.MonitoringFilter.doFilter(MonitoringFilter.java:215) at net.bull.javamelody.PluginMonitoringFilter.doFilter(PluginMonitoringFilter.java:88) at org.jvnet.hudson.plugins.monitoring.HudsonMonitoringFilter.doFilter(HudsonMonitoringFilter.java:114) at hudson.util.PluginServletFilter$1.doFilter(PluginServletFilter.java:151) at jenkins.telemetry.impl.UserLanguages$AcceptLanguageFilter.doFilter(UserLanguages.java:128) at hudson.util.PluginServletFilter$1.doFilter(PluginServletFilter.java:151) at hudson.util.PluginServletFilter.doFilter(PluginServletFilter.java:157) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1610) at hudson.security.csrf.CrumbFilter.doFilter(CrumbFilter.java:99) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1610) at hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:84) at hudson.security.UnwrapSecurityExceptionFilter.doFilter(UnwrapSecurityExceptionFilter.java:51) at hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:87) at jenkins.security.ExceptionTranslationFilter.doFilter(ExceptionTranslationFilter.java:118) at hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:87) at org.acegisecurity.providers.anonymous.AnonymousProcessingFilter.doFilter(AnonymousProcessingFilter.java:125) at hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:87) at org.acegisecurity.ui.rememberme.RememberMeProcessingFilter.doFilter(RememberMeProcessingFilter.java:142) at hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:87) at org.acegisecurity.ui.AbstractProcessingFilter.doFilter(AbstractProcessingFilter.java:271) at hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:87) at jenkins.security.BasicHeaderProcessor.doFilter(BasicHeaderProcessor.java:93) at hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:87) at org.acegisecurity.context.HttpSessionContextIntegrationFilter.doFilter(HttpSessionContextIntegrationFilter.java:249) at hudson.security.HttpSessionContextIntegrationFilter2.doFilter(HttpSessionContextIntegrationFilter2.java:67) at hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:87) at hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:90) at hudson.security.HudsonFilter.doFilter(HudsonFilter.java:171) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1610) at org.kohsuke.stapler.compression.CompressionFilter.doFilter(CompressionFilter.java:49) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1610) at hudson.util.CharacterEncodingFilter.doFilter(CharacterEncodingFilter.java:82) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1610) at org.kohsuke.stapler.DiagnosticThreadNameFilter.doFilter(DiagnosticThreadNameFilter.java:30) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1610) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doHandle(ServletHandler.java:540) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.handle(ScopedHandler.java:146) at org.eclipse.jetty.security.SecurityHandler.handle(SecurityHandler.java:524) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:132) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.nextHandle(ScopedHandler.java:257) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler.doHandle(SessionHandler.java:1700) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.nextHandle(ScopedHandler.java:255) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doHandle(ContextHandler.java:1345) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.nextScope(ScopedHandler.java:203) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doScope(ServletHandler.java:480) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler.doScope(SessionHandler.java:1667) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.nextScope(ScopedHandler.java:201) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doScope(ContextHandler.java:1247) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.handle(ScopedHandler.java:144) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:132) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server.handle(Server.java:505) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpChannel.handle(HttpChannel.java:370) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpConnection.onFillable(HttpConnection.java:267) at org.eclipse.jetty.io.AbstractConnection$ReadCallback.succeeded(AbstractConnection.java:305) at org.eclipse.jetty.io.FillInterest.fillable(FillInterest.java:103) at org.eclipse.jetty.io.ChannelEndPoint$2.run(ChannelEndPoint.java:117) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.strategy.EatWhatYouKill.runTask(EatWhatYouKill.java:333) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.strategy.EatWhatYouKill.doProduce(EatWhatYouKill.java:310) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.strategy.EatWhatYouKill.tryProduce(EatWhatYouKill.java:168) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.strategy.EatWhatYouKill.run(EatWhatYouKill.java:126) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.ReservedThreadExecutor$ReservedThread.run(ReservedThreadExecutor.java:366) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool.runJob(QueuedThreadPool.java:698) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool$Runner.run(QueuedThreadPool.java:804) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)