Simple question: How to change the jenkins home directory location? By default it points to /var/lib/jenkins whereas I want it to point to /home/jenkins. I have changed my $JENKINS_HOME to /home/jenkins but it doesn't help me.
Jenkins usually runs with its own user,
so changing the home-dir of that user should do the job.
If not sure, simply run a test-job with a shell-command like 'id' or 'whoami' or 'env' to find the user that Jenkins uses.
Also, note that a message of "Started by user anonymous" does not mean that Jenkins started as an anonymous user -
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