Re: Running Jenkins as a Different User

2014-12-15 Thread Wt Riker
I pretty much figured this was the case. This is RHEL 6.2. The problem is that by corporate policy, local accounts are not permitted. Vintella is used on all Linux servers so AD users, called "generic" users, must be created to comply with security policy. Therefore that user will not show up i

Re: Running Jenkins as a Different User

2014-12-15 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am 15.12.2014 um 14:38 schrieb Wt Riker: > I just noticed one additional point, and that may be the crux of the > problem. Why does it try to use /users/dtvjnkns/.jenkins? That is not > the home directory for this user. I specified /var/lib/jenkins as the > home directory in /etc/sysconfig/jenkins

Re: Running Jenkins as a Different User

2014-12-15 Thread Wt Riker
I just noticed one additional point, and that may be the crux of the problem. Why does it try to use /users/dtvjnkns/.jenkins? That is not the home directory for this user. I specified /var/lib/jenkins as the home directory in /etc/sysconfig/jenkins. -- You received this message because you ar

Re: Running Jenkins as a Different User

2014-12-15 Thread Wt Riker
Thanks for the reply. I have already done all that except trying to run it manually. That did produce some additional errors but it does mean anything to me other than is cannot load Jetty (no idea where that is). I tried to search for it but nothing seemed applicable. Here is the output: Runn

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

Running Jenkins as a Different User

2014-12-11 Thread Wt Riker
I am trying to set up Jenkins to run as a different user. I followed these instructions: http://blog.manula.org/2013/03/running-jenkins-under-different-user-in.html That seems pretty simple and Jenkins seems to start fine. However, when I try to access it I get this error: HTTP ERROR: 503 Pr