How to install jenkins under current user (not 'jenkins') on MAC OS X

Question

I have configured MAC OS X environment (SDKs, licenses, etc) under current user for build server and would like to reuse all the settings by a build agent. Jenkins was chosen as a good option but for some reason during installation it created a new user jenkins and launch the app under it, causing the environment setup to be not accessible (no SDKs, no licenses are found anymore).

Is it possible to install jenkins under current user? Probably it could be installed under jenkins but then launched under current user?

Any other good options for me to consider are appreciated.

Answer 1

Try this: http://www.sailmaker.co.uk/blog/2013/04/02/advanced-jenkins-for-ios-and-mac/#Installing-Jenkins-itself

I’m also going to recommend installing Jenkins via Homebrew, to avoid some nonsense in Jenkins’ own installer whereby it puts itself in /Users/Shared/. You really don’t want that.