How to run jenkins as a different user

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I have been trying to follow tutorials and this one  Deploy as Jenkins User or Allow Jenkins To Run As Different User   but I still can t for the love of the computing gods  run as a different user  Here are the steps of what I did    download the macosx pkg for jenkins LTS  setup plugins etc and git try to build it   I keep getting a can t clone error because jenkins keeps starting as anonymous   Started by user anonymous   How do I set it up so that jenkins runs as me  I was using the jenkins web UI so it was in localhost 8080  I tried logging in also using  login but I can t even login using my name or as root   The people tab doesn t even have a create user link  so yeah I ve been stuck  Help please

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ISSUE 1   Started by user anonymous  That does not mean that Jenkins started as an anonymous user    It just means that the person who started the build was not logged in  If you enable Jenkins security  you can create usernames for people and when they log in  the    Started by anonymous     will change to    Started by  lt  username  gt       Note  You do not have to enable security in order to run jenkins or to clone correctly   If you want to enable security and create users  you should see the options at Manage Jenkins  gt  Configure System     ISSUE 2   The  can t clone  error is a different issue altogether  It has nothing to do with you logging in to jenkins or enabling security  It just means that Jenkins does not have the credentials to clone from your git SCM    Check out the Jenkins Git Plugin to see how to set up Jenkins to work with your git repository    Hope that helps

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If you really want to run Jenkins as you  I suggest you check out my Jenkins app  An alternative  easy way to run Jenkins on Mac    See https   github com stisti jenkins-app   Download it from https   github com stisti jenkins-app downloads

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On Mac OS X  the way I enabled Jenkins to pull from my  private  Github repo is   First  ensure that your user owns the Jenkins directory  sudo chown -R me me  Users Shared Jenkins   Then edit the LaunchDaemon plist for Jenkins  at  Library LaunchDaemons org jenkins-ci plist  so that your user is the GroupName and the UserName        lt key gt GroupName lt  key gt       lt string gt me lt  string gt           lt key gt UserName lt  key gt       lt string gt me lt  string gt    Then reload Jenkins   sudo launchctl unload -w  Library LaunchDaemons org jenkins-ci plist sudo launchctl load -w  Library LaunchDaemons org jenkins-ci plist   Then Jenkins  since it s running as you  has access to your    ssh directory which has your keys

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The  Issue 2  answer given by  Sagar works for the majority of git servers such as gitorious   However  there will be a name clash in a system like gitolite where the public ssh keys are checked in as files named with the username  ie keydir jenkins pub  What if there are multiple jenkins servers that need to access the same gitolite server    Note  this is about running the Jenkins daemon not running a build job as a user  addressed by  Sagar s  Issue 1      So in this case you do need to run the Jenkins daemon as a different user    There are two steps   Step 1  The main thing is to update the JENKINS USER environment variable  Here s a patch showing how to change the user to ptran   BEGIN PATCH  --- etc default jenkins old     2011-10-28 17 46 54 410305099 -0700     etc default jenkins 2011-10-28 17 47 01 670369300 -0700    -13 7  13 7     PIDFILE  var run jenkins jenkins pid     user id to be invoked as  otherwise will run as root  not wise   -JENKINS USER jenkins  JENKINS USER ptran     location of the jenkins war file  JENKINS WAR  usr share jenkins jenkins war --- etc init d jenkins old      2011-10-28 17 47 20 878539172 -0700     etc init d jenkins  2011-10-28 17 47 47 510774714 -0700    -23 7  23 7       DAEMON  JENKINS SH  DAEMON  usr bin daemon -DAEMON ARGS  --name  NAME --inherit --env JENKINS HOME  JENKINS HOME --output  JENKINS LOG -   -pidfile  PIDFILE    DAEMON ARGS  --name  JENKINS USER --inherit --env JENKINS HOME  JENKINS HOME --output  JENKINS LOG --pidfile  PIDFILE     SU  bin su   END PATCH  Step 2  Update ownership of jenkins directories   chown -R ptran  var log jenkins chown -R ptran  var lib jenkins chown -R ptran  var run jenkins chown -R ptran  var cache jenkins   Step 3  Restart jenkins  sudo service jenkins restart

User · Answer

you can integrate to LDAP or AD as well  It works well

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