I would think that running Jenkins as the root user would be a very risky. If one of the users inadvertently defines a Jenkins job that runs the shell command "rm -rf /", your system will self-destruct.
It is best to find another way, rather than running the Jenkins process as the root user. Mark Waite On Sat, Aug 1, 2015 at 4:04 PM Martin <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey, I was starting the service with a sudo user. So it should be fine in > terms of privilege. > > > On Friday, July 31, 2015 at 3:05:29 PM UTC-4, Thomas Fuerer wrote: > >> on many systems you need administrative privileges to use a port between >> 0 to 1024. normally a apache httpd (or nynx) demon runs at this port and >> routes to the internal 8080 port. >> >> tom >> >> Am 31.07.2015 um 20:37 schrieb Martin: >> > Hello, I wanted to use "80" for Jenkins server. and I executed the >> > following: >> > >> > $ java -jar --httpPort=80jenkins.war >> > >> > >> > But It doesn't work. The website is not on. My port 80 is available. >> > Then I have to change it back to 8080. >> > >> > >> > What might cause this? Thank you. >> > >> > -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> > Groups "Jenkins Users" group. >> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >> > > an email to [email protected] >> > > <mailto:[email protected]>. >> > To view this discussion on the web visit >> > >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/a3b89f81-11e0-4757-a3d7-b5a5cbd32b13%40googlegroups.com >> > < >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/a3b89f81-11e0-4757-a3d7-b5a5cbd32b13%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. >> >> > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Jenkins Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/fe82020c-f033-4e6f-a64d-3ef82b13f035%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/fe82020c-f033-4e6f-a64d-3ef82b13f035%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/CAO49JtEoHWY9dKp%2Bi6TsCzqz6geQn7OikhRo1%2BMkb8u%3DbfFByg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
