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Running Jenkins as a different user can be achieved in two ways as shown below. Either by installing Jenkins.app (preferred) or installing Jenkins by source. I prefer option 1 because it is straight-forward and uses the current OSX user by default. This means your .ssh keys is recognized.

Option 1: Use Jenkins.app

  1. Install from https://github.com/stisti/jenkins-app

  2. Run Jenkins.app

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  1. It will ask for settings

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  1. By default, jenkins.app install the ff:
~% cd ~
~% ls -la .jenkins
total 40
drwxr-xr-x   13 rupert  staff   442 10 Sep 13:05 ./
drwxr-xr-x+ 113 rupert  staff  3842 10 Sep 13:06 ../
-rw-r--r--    1 rupert  staff   159 10 Sep 13:05 hudson.model.UpdateCenter.xml
-rw-------    1 rupert  staff  1675 10 Sep 13:00 identity.key
drwxr-xr-x    2 rupert  staff    68 10 Sep 13:00 jobs/
-rw-r--r--    1 rupert  staff   907 10 Sep 13:05 nodeMonitors.xml
drwxr-xr-x   28 rupert  staff   952 10 Sep 13:00 plugins/
-rw-r--r--    1 rupert  staff    46 10 Sep 13:04 queue.xml.bak
-rw-r--r--    1 rupert  staff    64 10 Sep 13:00 secret.key
-rw-r--r--    1 rupert  staff     0 10 Sep 13:00 secret.key.not-so-secret
drwxr-xr-x    5 rupert  staff   170 10 Sep 13:05 updates/
drwxr-xr-x    3 rupert  staff   102 10 Sep 13:00 userContent/
drwxr-xr-x   24 rupert  staff   816 10 Sep 13:00 war/
  1. To stop, simply quit Jenkins.app

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Option 2: Jenkins on OSX by source

  1. Install jenkins from http://jenkins-ci.org/. Choose Mac OS X or this direct link http://mirrors.jenkins-ci.org/osx/latest

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  1. Jenkins will run as user “jenkins” by default. To see the files installed, read vim /Library/Application Support/Jenkins/Uninstall.command
sudo launchctl unload /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.jenkins-ci.plist
sudo rm /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.jenkins-ci.plist
sudo rm -rf /Applications/Jenkins "/Library/Application Support/Jenkins" /Library/Documentation/Jenkins
sudo rm -rf /Users/Shared/Jenkins
sudo rm -rf /var/log/jenkins
sudo dscl . -delete /Users/jenkins
sudo dscl . -delete /Groups/jenkins
pkgutil --pkgs | grep 'org\.jenkins-ci\.' | xargs -n 1 sudo pkgutil --forget

Run Jenkins as a different user

  1. To run jenkins as a different user on OSX, say rupert.
sudo vim /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.jenkins-ci.plist>
 
  <key>GroupName</key>
  <string>wheel</string>
  …
  <key>UserName</key>
  <string>rupert</string>
  1. Reload Jenkins
sudo launchctl unload -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.jenkins-ci.plist
sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.jenkins-ci.plist

References:

– how to run jenkins as a different user

– Launchctl:Dubious permissions on file: Problem Installing Jenkins