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I am trying to start jenkins slave on mac mini with following /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.jenkins.ci.plist

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

    <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">

    <plist version="1.0">

    <dict>

        <key>Label</key>

        <string>com.jenkins.ci</string>

        <key>UserName</key>

        <string>jenkins</string>

        <key>SessionCreate</key>

        <true/>

        <key>ProgramArguments</key>

        <array>

            <string>/usr/bin/java</string>

            <string>-Djava.awt.headless=true</string>

            <string>-jar</string>

            <string>/Users/jenkins/agent.jar</string>

            <string>-jnlpUrl</string>

            <string>http://jenkins2.domain.net:8080/computer/jenkins-mac/slave-agent.jnlp</string>

            <string>-secret</string>

            <string>23erft6yhujnhyujnbftyujbvcdrtyhbvcxswedaw</string>

            <string>-workDir</string>

            <string>"/Users/jenkins/jenkins_slave/"</string>

        </array>

        <key>RunAtLoad</key>

        <true/>

        <key>KeepAlive</key>

        <true/>

        <key>StandardErrorPath</key>

        <string>/Users/jenkins/error.log</string>

        <key>StandardOutPath</key>

        <string>/Users/jenkins/stdout.log</string>

    </dict>

    </plist>

Then
sudo launchctl load /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.jenkins.ci.plist

But in the /Users/jenkins/error.log

I see

    Exception in thread "main" java.io.IOException: The specified working directory should be fully accessible to the remoting executable (RWX): "/Users/jenkins/jenkins_slave/"

        at org.jenkinsci.remoting.engine.WorkDirManager.verifyDirectory(WorkDirManager.java:249)

        at org.jenkinsci.remoting.engine.WorkDirManager.initializeWorkDir(WorkDirManager.java:202)

        at hudson.remoting.Launcher.run(Launcher.java:300)

        at hudson.remoting.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:283)

I have opened up /Users/jenkins/jenkins_slave/ with 777 still getting this error.

If I run following on mac as jenkins user, it works

/usr/bin/java -Djava.awt.headless=true -jar /Users/jenkins/agent.jar -jnlpUrl http://jenkins2.domain.net:8080/computer/jenkins-mac/slave-agent.jnlp -secret 23erft6yhujnhyujnbftyujbvcdrtyhbvcxswedaw -workDir "/Users/jenkins/jenkins_slave/"

Anyone knows what's wrong here ?

I am on :

ProductName: Mac OS X

ProductVersion: 10.14.1

BuildVersion: 18B75

So the reason it works for "jenkins" user is because Jenkins creates a Application account with jenkins user which has permissions to run/access Jenkins(and its folders- in your case -workDir "/Users/jenkins/jenkins_slave/"). That is why jenkins can run the command but when you try to run it with sudo it fails.

Why does it fail with sudo ?

That's mainly because there is directory higher in the tree where you do not have execute permission, so even with 777, you will still not be able to run it.

Instead do a chown or usermod on the directory to the user that you wish to get access

sudo usermod -a -G rohit git

for more information https://askubuntu.com/questions/812513/permission-denied-in-777-folder