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jenkins build failure shell command permission denied

I am trying to run shell build command on mac but I get permission denied for e.g. ls /Users/... command.

permission denied

ls /Users/...

I see whoami is jenkins, which is different for my uesr login?

whoami

jenkins

I read online I need to run chmod for jenkins user, how do I do that?

I changed file permission using chmod 777?

Do I need to change jenkins user?

...

ls

chmod

3 Answers
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Maybe you have a problem that jenkins is not a full user. Try this:

jenkins

Create a user for Jenkins

It’s best to run Jenkins as it’s own user (it can then be limited in the permissions it has), and you’ll want to create a standard (full) user for it.

You can do this through System Preferences, the Server Manager or the command line.

For a local user:

# create an applications group
dseditgroup -o create -n . -u username -p -r ‘Applications’ applications
# get the id for that group
sudo dscl . -read /Groups/applications
# find a unique identifier to give the user
sudo dscl . -list /Users UniqueID
# create the jenkins user
sudo dscl . -create /Users/jenkins
sudo dscl . -create /Users/jenkins PrimaryGroupID 505
sudo dscl . -create /Users/jenkins UniqueID 1026
sudo dscl . -create /Users/jenkins UserShell /bin/bash
sudo dscl . -create /Users/jenkins RealName "Jenkins"
sudo dscl . -create /Users/jenkins NFSHomeDirectory /Users/jenkins
sudo dscl . -passwd /Users/jenkins
# create and set the owner of the home directory
sudo mkdir /Users/jenkins
sudo chown -R jenkins /Users/jenkins


I found this here: installing jenkins on OS X Yosemite

In my case, the folder was inside a NFS/Samba/Webdav share, which these scripts seem not able to handle.
I created a real folder in my fs and linked it to a subdir in the shared folder. That way, no permission denied errors occur anymore.

In linux, e.g. ubuntu, you can add user jenkins to the root group:

sudo usermod -a -G root jenkins


Then restart jenkins:

sudo service jenkins restart


Be aware that, adding jenkins user to root group can make the user too powerful, use with caution

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