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I've installed jenkins and I'm trying to get into a shell as Jenkins to add an ssh key. I can't seem to su into the jenkins user:
[root@pacmandev /]# sudo su jenkins [root@pacmandev /]# whoami root [root@pacmandev /]# echo $USER root [root@pacmandev /]# The jenkins user exists in my /etc/passwd file. Runnin su jenkins asks for a password, but rejects my normal password. sudo su jenkins doesn't seem to do anything; same for sudo su - jenkins. I'm on CentOS.
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Go to sudoers file by typing below command. While saving the file remember saving it in /etc/sudoers, not in etc/sudoers. tmp. After that restart your Jenkins server by using below command.
If you have access to the gui, you can go to "manage jenkins" > "system information" and look for "user.name".
jenkins is a service account, it doesn't have a shell by design. It is generally accepted that service accounts shouldn't be able to log in interactively.
I didn't answer this one initially as it's a duplicate of a question that has been moved to server fault. I should have answered rather than linked to the answer in a comment.
if for some reason you want to login as jenkins, you can do so with: sudo su -s /bin/bash jenkins
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Use the below command:
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