Jenkins pipeline shell set $HOME to /var/www

[Changqin Xie]

Using the following Jenkinsfile:

#!/usr/bin/env groovy

pipeline {

    agent any

    stages {

        stage('Deploy') {

            steps {

                sh 'echo $HOME'

            }

        }

    }

}

And I get $HOME == /var/www

Why isn't it being "/home/www-data"? By the way, I am running Jenkins under the user www-data.

[R. Tyler Croy]

(replies inline)

I would be willing to bet that the home directory for the www-data user is
actually set to `/var/www` in /etc/passwd.

Most Linux packages set the home-directory for that user to /var/www



- R. Tyler Croy

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[Kirill Peskov]

If you're working with Debian and/or its derivatives, default user for
webserver is www-data, group www-data and the default home directory for
that user is /var/www

Check if this string exists if /etc/passwd

www-data:x:33:33:www-data:/var/www:/usr/sbin/nologin

BTW, in RedHat, CentOS, Fedora, etc. user is apache, group apache and
the home dir is /usr/share/httpd


Cheers,
Kirill