\n\tTo minimize maintenance I wanted to run Jenkins as a different user that I already use for other services, as to avoid permission control hell and ssh-config hell as well.\n<\/p>\n
\n\tSo here's what I did:\n<\/p>\n
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\n\tLet's say the user you want is called "johndoe" and it has an userid=2000 and groupid=2004 in your box, do this:\n<\/p>\n
\n\t1. Edit \/etc\/password\n<\/p>\n
\n\tjenkins:x:2000<\/span>:2004<\/span>::\/var\/lib\/jenkins:\/bin\/bash\n<\/p>\n \n\t \n<\/p>\n \n\t \n<\/p>\n \n\t2. Change permissions so they reflect the new ID\n<\/p>\n \n\t \n<\/p>\n \n\tchown jenkins:jenkins -Rv \/var\/cache\/jenkins\/ \n\t \n<\/p>\n \n\t \n<\/p>\n \n\tI wrote this last minute and after altering things for the second time, (things got a bit reverted after upgrading Jenkins in my Archlinux home server); so let me know if this doesn't work for you and I'll check.\n<\/p>\n \n\t \n<\/p>\n \n\t <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" To minimize maintenance I wanted to run Jenkins as a different user that I already use for other services, as to avoid permission control hell and ssh-config hell as well. So here's what I did: Let's say the user you want is called "johndoe" and it has an userid=2000… Continue reading
\n\tchown -Rv jenkins:jenkins \/var\/lib\/enkins\/\n<\/p>\n