How can I tell what user Jenkins is running as?

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I have a bitnami Jenkins VM, how do I tell what user Jenkins is running as? I suspect it is Tomcat.

score 12 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 06 '21 at 12:16

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If you have access to the gui, you can go to "manage jenkins" > "system information" and look for "user.name".

answered Jan 06 '21 at 12:16

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score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 18 '13 at 21:19

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I would use ps to get the uid of the process, and grep for that in /etc/passwd

answered Jul 18 '13 at 21:19

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That seems to return PID – Zach Jul 18 '13 at 22:27
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used ps -u returned user names – Zach Jul 18 '13 at 22:31

score 3 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 19 '13 at 13:54

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You could also create a Jenkins job containing a shell script box with the "whoami" command.

answered Jul 19 '13 at 13:54

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score 2 · Answer 4 · edited Oct 05 '16 at 07:57

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Use this command to see under which process your Jenkins server works on:

ps axufwwww | grep 'jenkins\|java' -

To interpret the results, look for:

jenkins   1087  0.0  0.0  18740   396 ?        S    08:00   0:00 /usr/bin/daemon --name=jenkins
jenkins   1088  1.6 20.7 3600900 840116 ?      Sl   08:00   2:12  \_ /usr/bin/java

1087 and 1088 are the PIDs. They might differ for you.

edited Oct 05 '16 at 07:57

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answered Oct 05 '16 at 07:24

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score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Jan 09 '19 at 11:20

ps aux | grep '/usr/bin/daemon' | grep 'jenkins' | awk {'print $1'}

The command will show running processes, then grep for a process running as a daemon that includes the string 'jenkins'. Finally, get the first row of the piped output which is the user that is running Jenkins.

How can I tell what user Jenkins is running as?

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