I am new to Jenkins... I am trying to figure out how to setup jenkins on top of our existing builds which are run out of cron. We have a specific user account which is used for all builds and tests. (user: otto, group: dev). This specific user belongs to the group which is needed to access the source code repository.
Should I setup Jenkins to run as user "jenkins" and group "jenkins" and then have jobs setup to run the builds using our build account? What about when Jenkins is polling the source control system. Would it need to be a member of group "dev"? Would it be better to setup the Jenkins user account to be by default using the group "dev"? It also appears that other development groups may be using other user/group accounts to run builds and access source repositories. So what ever I setup, I need to be able to handle these builds using their build accounts. Any guidance for me? TIA, johnl
