Monthly Archives: December 2014

Run shell scripts on Jenkins as super user [sudo] without given too much privileges

You have a Jenkins build server and want to run a script which requires super user rights. But you do not want do make your jenkins user a super user.

With the following you give your jenkins user only sudo rights for a specific script.

In the /etc/sudoers file you can give sudo rights for a specific file to the user with which you run jenkins.
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Then in your Jenkins job, you can sudo this script
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