>There is no explicit statement about what Mesos means when it runs a task as some other user. I think this is just ensure the running user of the task is the user you given. In Mesos, it jus call the [setuid](http://linux.die.net/man/2/setuid) to change the user, It would not execute something like the bashrc script of user.
On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 7:41 PM, DiGiorgio, Mr. Rinaldo S. < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Recently I noticed that the Mesos Jenkins plugin supports the > setting of environment variables. Somewhere between 0.26 and 0.28.1, > settings like > > USER= > HOME= > > were required to get things to work the way they had worked. I > have been able to set the environment this way but I have some concerns > about it. > > There is no explicit statement about what Mesos means when it runs > a task as some other user. Clearly it is not running some of the scripts > normally run during login. This was a constant source of confusion with > Jenkins. If one can state what exactly is done to create the user > environment each platform and how it is different that others it will save > countless hours of debugging IMO. I realize OSX is an odd system -- linux > at times, Apple specific at times in areas that conflict with Linux but > this will only get more complicated when Windows agents become available. > > > > Rinaldo -- Best Regards, Haosdent Huang
