How can I tell what user Jenkins is running as?

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Zach picture Zach · Jul 18, 2013 · Viewed 15.9k times · Source

I have a bitnami Jenkins VM, how do I tell what user Jenkins is running as? I suspect it is Tomcat.

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Jon Carter picture Jon Carter · Jul 18, 2013

I would use ps to get the uid of the process, and grep for that in /etc/passwd

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