Should i switch to jenkins

Asked 10 years, 3 months ago. Active 3 years, 3 months ago. Viewed 20k times. How can I switch to the user jenkins in the middle of the script? Improve this question. Jonathan Leffler k gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Daniel Daniel 2 2 gold badges 7 7 silver badges 17 17 bronze badges. Do you have password for jenkins user? Yes, I have a password for jenkins user, in fact, I even went in as root and changed the password and I am still unable to login as that user.

Now I am wondering if its a permissions issue. It looks like your attempts to switch to the Jenkins user are from two different systems; perhaps a linux instance and a Mac? Can you be specify which one is the main system you are trying this on? I'll propose an answer below but its more specific to linux systems. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Michael J Michael J 4 4 silver badges 8 8 bronze badges. As you can see I posted this back in November of last year and I never got any help here and I had to move on to other work.

Now thanks to you I can go back and give another crack at Jenkins. Apache frontend for security run Jenkins behind Apache and perform access control in Apache instead of Jenkins. Matrix-based security Matrix-based security Granting and denying finer-grained permissions. In addition to access control of users, access control for builds limits what builds can do, once started.

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Yes No. If we click on the download link from the above message, it will not download the whole Jenkins Installer. Instead, it will download only the jenkins. We can just copy the link to download from your Jenkins UI console, and go to command prompt, and use wget to download the war file:. On the server, jenkins. Before wecopy the new version of the jenkins war file, we need to take a backup of the existing version of jenkins war file:.

To make sure service is running, try running sudo systemctl status jenkins after a few minutes and we should see below output:. Like Like. Great post. You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account.