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'gitlab-runner' unexpectedly runs as root

I'm new to continous integration on iOS, I try to run build with gitlab-runner and use shell as executor but I got issue that pod cannot run as root I am sure that I am not installing cocoapods with sudo and I try run whoami at before_script and that's right my runner run as root enter image description here

How can I make gitlab-runner not run as root?

Solution

  • Register the runner without sudo, and that should set the gitlab-runner to run as your current user.

    So steps should be:

    sudo curl --output /usr/local/bin/gitlab-runner https://gitlab-runner-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/latest/binaries/gitlab-runner-darwin-amd64

sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/gitlab-runner

gitlab-runner register ...

gitlab-runner install

    Remember to stop your sudo gitlab-runner service otherwise you could have multiple runners on the same machine fighting for the same jobs.