Run shell command in jenkins as root user?

Question

I have recently started using Jenkins for integration. All was well until I was running jobs on master node without shell command but I have to run jobs on master as well as

Answer 1

You just need to run the shell command on Linux machine using Root privileges from Jenkins.

Steps :

1) sudo vi /etc/sudoers

2) Add line :

jenkins ALL=NOPASSWD:/path of script/

3) From Jenkins,run the script on remote shell using sudo . for eg : sudo ps -ef

4) Build Jenkins job now. This job runs the script on Linux machine using root privileges.