S3CloudHub: How to set Jenkins user as root

Thursday, July 23, 2020

to set root user for Jenkins to follow below steps for CentOs

1. Open up the script

vim /etc/sysconfig/jenkins

2. Find this $JENKINS_USER and change to “root”:

$JENKINS_USER="root"

3. Then change the ownership of Jenkins home, webroot and logs:

chown -R root:root /var/lib/jenkins
chown -R root:root /var/cache/jenkins
chown -R root:root /var/log/jenkins

4) Restart Jenkins and check the user has been changed:

service jenkins restart

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