How to become a Jenkins user?

bash, continuous-deployment, continuous-integration, jenkins, shell

Solution

Basically for this Jenkins user `jenkins` bash was not configured.

jenkins:x:496:492:Jenkins Continuous Build server:/var/lib/jenkins:/bin/false

So we need to set the bash for this user and that resolved the issue. I used the following command:

sudo usermod -s /bin/bash jenkins

See below:

jenkins:x:496:492:Jenkins Continuous Build server:/var/lib/jenkins:/bin/bash

And now I can perform su and can use bash.

Problem

I have installed Jenkins and during installation an user named `jenkins` has been created. I can see from the documentation: The 'jenkins' user is created to run this service. Now I need to become this `jenkins` user. I have in the following ways: ``` [root@hostname ~]# sudo su - jenkins [root@hostname ~]# id uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root) [root@hostname tmp]# su - jenkins [root@hostname tmp]# whoami root ``` Why switch user to the jenkins user is not working? I am on RHEL. ``` cat /etc/*release Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.3 (Santiago) ```

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