Re: Running Jenkins as a Different User

2014-12-11 Thread Jeff Thornsen
I assume you're on Linux of some sort. 1. Verify permissions on JENKINS_HOME 2. Verify home directory for your service user is valid and writable (e.g. ~ exists and is owned by ) I typically re-configure the account in /etc/passwd so that ~ === JENKINS_HOME, which is almost always /var/lib/jenk

Slave permissions and limiting which jobs a given slave will execute

2014-11-21 Thread Jeff Thornsen
Hello all, I tried to search for answers to this, but didn't come up with anything obvious. We have a shared Jenkins instance which is used by multiple teams. Using the CloudBees Folder plugin (the Free version), I created folders in Jenkins for both TeamA and TeamB, and set up appropriate per