How can I point Jenkins to another .jenkins home directory?

Question

I have the working /.jenkins folder under a specific user in home on Linux. I want to start Jenkins with another user, but re-use the .jenkins folder of the other user. How

Answer 1

I think this can help you out.

Set an Environment Variable JENKINS_HOME pointing to the .jenkins folder and run the Jenkins command.

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The shell should be like

export JENKINS_HOME=/usr/jhon/.jenkins

java -jar jenkins.war

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The batch should be like

  SET JENKINS_HOME=C:\users\jhon\.jenkins

 java -jar jenkins.war

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The Powershell should be like

[Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable("JENKINS_HOME", "${PWD}\.jenkins")
java -jar jenkins.war

This will set your home directory to the current-working-directory + './jenkins'