What is the password for jenkins user under MACOSX? - macos

I'm trying to create a CI for iOS (iPhone and iPad) using TestFlight, Jenkings, GitHub, Sonar...
I downloaded the macosx jenkings package/wizard. It seems it created a user for my mac.
What is its password?
Because I'm having problems with the keychain and I guess it is because I'm user my own user instead of jenkins profile.
Kind Regards,
Ricardo.

I always use sudo su jenkins - to work as the Jenkins user on the command line, this should also work on a Mac. Then you don't need the password at all.
I don't have my MacBook with me to tests this now, but on my current linux server the jenkins user was created with shell /bin/false. I changed the shell in /etc/passwd to /bin/bash, after that I could login with su as the Jenkins user to setup ssh-keys, etc...

No password is set by default for user jenkins. You need to set it up by executing sudo passwd jenkins

cat /Users/[username]/.jenkins/secrets/initialAdminPassword

If I remember correctly, it's not set by default (empty).
Read this article (how to change password in OS X from command line):
http://osxdaily.com/2011/09/19/change-password-mac-os-x-10-7-lion-without-knowing-current-password/

You can find the initial password here /Users/{username}/.jenkins/secrets/initialAdminPassword

A Default password location is changed in the latest version of Jenkins.
sudo cat /Users/Shared/Jenkins/Home/secrets/initialAdminPassword

Related

Can't su to jenkins even though login shell is /bin/bash

I can't seem to su to jenkins user even though the login shell is already set to /bin/bash. When I attempt to run sudo su - jenkins -s /bin/bash, the user does not switch and I see the same prompt.
I've rebooted the machine and restarted the service using sudo systemctl restart jenkins.
I made sure that the jenkins login shell is not /bin/false like this question points out. My /etc/passwd shows this for jenkins:
jenkins:x:121:129:Jenkins,,,:/var/lib/jenkins:/bin/bash
Jenkins does run when I reboot the machine, but the service fails to start when I try to restart it.
Any idea why I can't su into jenkins?
Thanks
Edit: the below solution is not what fixed it for me. I'm still not sure what the root cause was, it may have been related to the Jenkins user not having read permission to some files, but I resolved it by reinstalling Jenkins.
It turns out that my /etc/sudoers file had:
jenkins ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
I changed it to:
jenkins ALL= NOPASSWD: ALL
and now I can switch to the jenkins user.

Jenkins shell script stuck on git clone

I am trying to nest a shell script into a Jenkins job but the script will infinitely get stuck when using the bash git clone command.
It doesn't even send me an error. I suspect the script is asking for a password when coming to the git clone command.
Jenkins Job Configuration :
#!/bin/sh
set -x
whoami #returns 'jenkins'
sudo -u root ./my_script.sh
my_script.sh
whoami #returns ROOT
sudo git clone 'https://myusername:mypassword#my.forge.fr/project/my-project.git' -b "master" --verbose
What have I tried so far
I edited my sudoers and added jenkins ALL=NOPASSWD: ALL
I intentionnaly wrote wrong credential in the git clone command, and I get an error remote: HTTP Basic: Access denied
With a terminal, I went in my workspace project, switched to jenkins user and ran sudo ./my_script.sh and it worked fine, no password asked.
It also work fine when ran under root user ( not a surprise )
Does anyone know how I can get my job to make this command pass ?
Edit
I am on Mac OS
I finally solved it, it did come from a credential, but not the one I thought of. The problem came from Keychain Access. Also I appologize, I did not specified I was on Mac, I thought it wasn't relevant here since I was using bash.
When running the script under the Jenkins user, it worked fine as I was using sudo, but when I tried to run directly the sudo git clone 'https://myusername:mypassword#my.forge.fr/project/my-project.git' -b "master" --verbose I got an error :
I couldn't find the error message in english, but basically it says "unable to find a Keychain to store..." and the answers "cancel" and "reset my default keychain"
From there I :
Created a new Keychain called jenkins-dev in the Keychain manager
I copied it from /Users/myuser/Library/Keychains to /Users/Shared/Jenkins/Library/Keychains under myuser
Then I ran security unlock-keychain /Users/Shared/Jenkins/Library/Keychains/jenkins-dev.keychain-db under jenkins user
finally security default-keychain /Users/Shared/Jenkins/Library/Keychains/jenkins-dev.keychain-db under jenkins user
I ran once more the git clone ... command line under jenkins user, and then it found the keychain, stored the access and my Jenkins script wasn't stuck anymore
Hope this can help
Do you have a key in ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub in that machine?

How to reset the user credentials for Jenkins on Mac OS (Sierra)

I forgot the user credentials.Tried to follow the links on SO but I am not able to find the file paths.Links are mentioned below.How to reset the credentials on mac OS Sierra?
Reset Jenkins Configuration Command Line
For macOS, the config.xml file is located in:
/Users/<USERNAME>/.jenkins
As the other post says, change:
<useSecurity>true</useSecurity>
to
<useSecurity>false</useSecurity>
Run the following command to find the Jenkins username and encrypted password
cat /Users/{USERNAME}/.jenkins/credentials.xml
if you want to reset the password please follow the below steps
1.Use command – $ vim /Users/{USERNAME}/.jenkins/config.xml file.
2.Go to <useSecurity> tag and check value, it will be true.
Press i so it file will be in insert mode. Then you can update the file. You need to update <useSecurity> tag value to false as below.
4.Save this file and exit from file. Press Escape and then enter :wq – to save updated file )
5.Once you are done with updating value in config.xml file. Restart Jenkins service. Use command ( $ brew services Restart Jenkins )
6.Now open Jenkins URL. It will go to dashboard direct. No any credentials required. You can see after opening dashboard ‘Logged in user’ section will be blank. As it is now Anonymous user.
7.Now, Delete old admin users. To do that go to People option in left hand side bar.
Users config located in:
/Users/{USERNAME}/.jenkins/users/jenkins/config.xml
You need to set the <useSecurity>true</useSecurity>to <useSecurity>false</useSecurity> to login without user name and password
Steps:
cd /Users/<USERNAME>/.jenkins
nano config.xml
Change <useSecurity>true</useSecurity>to <useSecurity>false</useSecurity>
Restart Jenkins brew services restart jenkins-lts
Then you can login and reset your username and password

Run Jenkins' Cygwin script as user

I have Jenkins running on Windows, and I have a build that works fine under CygWin bash from the CygWin terminal, so I now want to automate it. However, using this script:
#!C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe
whoami
make
The system reports me as nt authority\system, not the ken that I get when using an interactive shell. Is there an easy way to persuade Jenkins or CygWin to run as me?
Most likely you are running jenkins with default installation. You have two options. First is mentioned in the comment. Change the "Service account" to be same as yours.
Second option is derived from best practices. Run the jenkins master on a system with backup etc. Configure slave node with your account credentials. Change the project configuration to build on the specific node.
(It is possible to run slave and master on same machine with different credentials - just in case you want to try out things)
The real problem I was having was not that the shell script was running as the wrong user, but that the shell script was not executing the default /etc/profile. So, the solution was simply:
#!C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -l
whoami
make
I was still nt authority\system, but now I had the correct environment set up and could run make successfully.
Note also that if I create a /home/system directory I can add .bash_profile, etc, to that directory to further customise the build environment.

How to run jenkins as a different user

I have been trying to follow tutorials and this one: Deploy as Jenkins User or Allow Jenkins To Run As Different User?
but I still can't for the love of the computing gods, run as a different user. Here are the steps of what I did:
download the macosx pkg for jenkins(LTS)
setup plugins etc and git
try to build it
I keep getting a can't clone error because jenkins keeps starting as anonymous:
Started by user anonymous
How do I set it up so that jenkins runs as me? I was using the jenkins web UI so it was in localhost:8080
I tried logging in also using /login but I can't even login using my name or as root.
The people tab doesn't even have a create user link, so yeah I've been stuck. Help please?
The "Issue 2" answer given by #Sagar works for the majority of git servers such as gitorious.
However, there will be a name clash in a system like gitolite where the public ssh keys are checked in as files named with the username, ie keydir/jenkins.pub. What if there are multiple jenkins servers that need to access the same gitolite server?
(Note: this is about running the Jenkins daemon not running a build job as a user (addressed by #Sagar's "Issue 1").)
So in this case you do need to run the Jenkins daemon as a different user.
There are two steps:
Step 1
The main thing is to update the JENKINS_USER environment variable. Here's a patch showing how to change the user to ptran.
BEGIN PATCH
--- etc/default/jenkins.old 2011-10-28 17:46:54.410305099 -0700
+++ etc/default/jenkins 2011-10-28 17:47:01.670369300 -0700
## -13,7 +13,7 ##
PIDFILE=/var/run/jenkins/jenkins.pid
# user id to be invoked as (otherwise will run as root; not wise!)
-JENKINS_USER=jenkins
+JENKINS_USER=ptran
# location of the jenkins war file
JENKINS_WAR=/usr/share/jenkins/jenkins.war
--- etc/init.d/jenkins.old 2011-10-28 17:47:20.878539172 -0700
+++ etc/init.d/jenkins 2011-10-28 17:47:47.510774714 -0700
## -23,7 +23,7 ##
#DAEMON=$JENKINS_SH
DAEMON=/usr/bin/daemon
-DAEMON_ARGS="--name=$NAME --inherit --env=JENKINS_HOME=$JENKINS_HOME --output=$JENKINS_LOG - -pidfile=$PIDFILE"
+DAEMON_ARGS="--name=$JENKINS_USER --inherit --env=JENKINS_HOME=$JENKINS_HOME --output=$JENKINS_LOG --pidfile=$PIDFILE"
SU=/bin/su
END PATCH
Step 2
Update ownership of jenkins directories:
chown -R ptran /var/log/jenkins
chown -R ptran /var/lib/jenkins
chown -R ptran /var/run/jenkins
chown -R ptran /var/cache/jenkins
Step 3
Restart jenkins
sudo service jenkins restart
ISSUE 1:
Started by user anonymous
That does not mean that Jenkins started as an anonymous user.
It just means that the person who started the build was not logged in. If you enable Jenkins security, you can create usernames for people and when they log in, the
"Started by anonymous"
will change to
"Started by < username >".
Note: You do not have to enable security in order to run jenkins or to clone correctly.
If you want to enable security and create users, you should see the options at Manage Jenkins > Configure System.
ISSUE 2:
The "can't clone" error is a different issue altogether. It has nothing to do with you logging in to jenkins or enabling security. It just means that Jenkins does not have the credentials to clone from your git SCM.
Check out the Jenkins Git Plugin to see how to set up Jenkins to work with your git repository.
Hope that helps.
On Mac OS X, the way I enabled Jenkins to pull from my (private) Github repo is:
First, ensure that your user owns the Jenkins directory
sudo chown -R me:me /Users/Shared/Jenkins
Then edit the LaunchDaemon plist for Jenkins (at /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.jenkins-ci.plist) so that your user is the GroupName and the UserName:
<key>GroupName</key>
<string>me</string>
...
<key>UserName</key>
<string>me</string>
Then reload Jenkins:
sudo launchctl unload -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.jenkins-ci.plist
sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.jenkins-ci.plist
Then Jenkins, since it's running as you, has access to your ~/.ssh directory which has your keys.
If you really want to run Jenkins as you, I suggest you check out my Jenkins.app. An alternative, easy way to run Jenkins on Mac.
See https://github.com/stisti/jenkins-app/
Download it from https://github.com/stisti/jenkins-app/downloads
To run jenkins as different user on ubuntu os you need to change below things.
Update below two lines in /etc/default/jenkins file
JENKINS_USER=$USERNAME
JENKINS_GROUP=$NAME
In our case we set user as ubuntu.
#JENKINS_USER=$NAME
#JENKINS_GROUP=$NAME
JENKINS_USER="ubuntu"
JENKINS_GROUP="ubuntu"
Update below two lines in /lib/systemd/system/jenkins.service file
User=jenkins
Group=jenkins
In our case we set user as ubuntu.
#User=jenkins
#Group=jenkins
User=ubuntu
Group=ubuntu
Change file ownership of jenkins owned folders.
sudo chown -R ubuntu:ubuntu /var/lib/jenkins
sudo chown -R ubuntu:ubuntu /var/cache/jenkins
sudo chown -R ubuntu:ubuntu /var/log/jenkins
After above changes run below command to reload systemctl
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
Now you can restart jenkins
sudo systemctl restart jenkins.service
you can integrate to LDAP or AD as well. It works well.

Resources