How to run a script as root in Jenkins?

Question

I need to run a shell script in Jenkins as root instead of the default user. What do I need to change?

My sudoers file is like this:

# User privilege         


        

Answer 1

@Igor Chubin's answer is 100% correct, but never open sudoer file with a normal editor. always use visudo

just type

sudo visudo

this will take you to /etc/sudoers and upon saving it will make sure that there is no error in formatting.

if you make an error in sudoer file, you will lose sudo access, so always use visudo

Answer 2

I do realise I'm late to the party on this question, but for reference sake I thought I'd throw my 2c in here: I use the SSH plugin for Jenkins to accomplish this (simply configure a localhost target). In this way, I can contain the script directly within Jenkins (like a normal "Execute shell" step), instead of using sudo to invoke an external script.

Answer 3

Try adding jenkins user to sudo group

sudo su -
usermod -a -G sudo jenkins

Answer 4

You must run the script using sudo:

sudo /path/to/script

But before you must allow jenkins to run the script in /etc/sudoers.

jenkins    ALL = NOPASSWD: /path/to/script