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Linux: Impersonating Users
System Administration
NOTE: This page was created to generalize the technique of impersonating a system account that has no defined shell, and no known password. Specifically, it was documented as a means to add functionality to a Jenkins build server (where the jenkins account has...
Jenkins: Home Profile
Jenkins
When Jenkins is installed on a linux host, the Jenkins service and any spawned builds run under the context of the jenkins user account.Problem is, the jenkins user account is not a regular user account, with a profile that lives under /home.Instead, the Jenki...