How to become a Jenkins user?
Solution 1
Basically for this Jenkins user jenkins
bash was not configured.
jenkins:x:496:492:Jenkins Continuous Build server:/var/lib/jenkins:/bin/false
So we need to set the bash for this user and that resolved the issue. I used the following command:
sudo usermod -s /bin/bash jenkins
See below:
jenkins:x:496:492:Jenkins Continuous Build server:/var/lib/jenkins:/bin/bash
And now I can perform su and can use bash.
Solution 2
It is also possible to run:
su - jenkins -s /bin/bash
Solution 3
It's more like a queastion for superuser but:
You don't need sudo
when switching the user. su
will ask for the users password anyway:
su - jenkins
You can also use sudo
to execute a single command as another user with the -u
option. If that command is a shell, you'll get a shell. E.g.:
sudo -u jenkins /bin/bash
Comments
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Exploring almost 2 years
I have installed Jenkins and during installation an user named
jenkins
has been created. I can see from the documentation:The 'jenkins' user is created to run this service.
Now I need to become this
jenkins
user. I have in the following ways:[root@hostname ~]# sudo su - jenkins [root@hostname ~]# id uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root) [root@hostname tmp]# su - jenkins [root@hostname tmp]# whoami root
Why switch user to the jenkins user is not working?
I am on RHEL.
cat /etc/*release Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.3 (Santiago)
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prayagupa about 3 years
sudo -u jenkins /bin/bash
worked without password prompt