How to install jenkins under current user (not 'jenkins') on MAC OS X

Question

I have configured MAC OS X environment (SDKs, licenses, etc) under current user for build server and would like to reuse all the settings by a build agent. Jenkins was chosen as

Answer 1

Try this: http://www.sailmaker.co.uk/blog/2013/04/02/advanced-jenkins-for-ios-and-mac/#Installing-Jenkins-itself

I’m also going to recommend installing Jenkins via Homebrew, to avoid some nonsense in Jenkins’ own installer whereby it puts itself in /Users/Shared/. You really don’t want that.

Answer 2

If you're free to reinstall however you'd like, I'd recommend re-installing as the user you want to use, using whatever type of install you prefer, and then simply copy over the old Jenkins data directory to the new installation's location, and then changing the permissions in that directory.

That is to say, the directory containing the config, plugin and job information (it may be something like /usr/lib/jenkins, but could vary).

Then, chown -R the data directory using the user:group info you want to use so Jenkins has access to the files.

I have used this type of method in the past to transfer all the data from one install to another totally separate install on the same box, and it has worked well (one could use this method to transfer the data to an install on another box, as well).

Note: I would highly recommend making a full backup of the data directory before doing this, in case anything goes awry.