title: How to become a Jenkins user?
body: <p>I have installed Jenkins and during installation an user named <code>jenkins</code> has been created. I can see from the documentation:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Installing+Jenkins+on+Ubuntu" rel="noreferrer">The 'jenkins' user is created to run this service.</a> </p>
  
  <p>Now I need to become this <code>jenkins</code> user. I have in the following ways:</p>
  
  <pre><code>[root@hostname ~]# sudo su - jenkins
  [root@hostname ~]# id
  uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root)
  
  [root@hostname tmp]# su - jenkins
  [root@hostname tmp]# whoami
  root
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Why switch user to the jenkins user is not working?</p>
  
  <p>I am on RHEL.</p>
  
  <pre><code>cat /etc/*release
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.3 (Santiago)
  </code></pre>