In Jenkins, how do builds know who requested them?

Question

I need to pass the username of the requestor of a build down to the script that is actually doing the work. Looking at the console output for a particular build, the first

Answer 1

user30997

Please check out Jenkins Build User Vars plugin, it does what you need:

It is used to set following user build variables:

• BUILD_USER – full name of user started build,
• BUILD_USER_FIRST_NAME – first name of user started build,
• BUILD_USER_LAST_NAME – last name of user started build,
• BUILD_USER_ID – id of user started build.