Setting up jenkins on centos: problems with ssh keys and git

Question

Went through a lot of questions, but nothing seems to be solving my issue. Or to be more precise I am not sure if I am doing the whole thing correctly. So here it is:

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Answer 1

In order to login as "jenkins" user, maybe you could try this:

sudo -s -H -u jenkins

And try to invoke:

bash-4.1$ whoami
jenkins

Hope it helps.

Answer 2

1) First make jenkins as real user by editing /etc/passwd file Change

/bin/false to /bin/bash

2) Login to jenkins user, Now Jenkins home directory will be /var/lib/jenkins

su - jenkins

3)Generate ssh keys again ( keys will be created in /var/lib/jenkins/.ssh)

ssh-keygen -t rsa

4) copy id_rsa.pub key and paste in your git's authorized_keys file

5) Still if it won't work, probably you have to check permissions of your .ssh directory and contents

chmod 700 ~/.ssh && chmod 600 ~/.ssh/*

Answer 3

I think the .ssh directory should live in /var/lib/jenkins.

Works for me

Answer 4

jenkins is a service account, it doesn't have a shell by design. It is generally accepted that service accounts shouldn't be able to log in interactively.

I didn't answer this one initially as it's a duplicate of a question that has been moved to server fault. I should have answered rather than linked to the answer in a comment.

if for some reason you want to login as jenkins, you can do so with: sudo su -s /bin/bash jenkins

Answer 5

I was having problems changing to the jenkins user. I needed to actually create the user properly in the system so I could log in to it. I ran this command to help me create the jenkins user in the system:

su -s /bin/bash jenkins

Answer 6

What I did: sudo -u jenkins ssh-keygen. It works so far