Bamboo Windows Build Agent change user

[Stefan Hausotte]

Hi,

I need to change the Bamboo Build Agent user on a Windows Server 2012 R2 system from "SYSTEM" user to a local admin user. I followed the tutorial here https://confluence.atlassian.com/bamboo/running-bamboo-as-a-windows-service-as-the-local-user-416580754.html but after every build jobs fails after changing the user.

The git gets checked out, but the first powershell script to execute failes with -1. No error message or what so ever. This happens with all build jobs. If I change back to the SYSTEM user it works fine.

Any ideas how to fix it?

Kind regards, 

 secana

[Maclean IT]

Had this myself today, for me the solution was to copy the user path env variable into the system path env variable. I had nodejs installed so my circumstances exactly matched the SO question/answer below which fixed it.

http://stackoverflow.com/a/30184185/191877 

Hope that helps.

[Stefan Hausotte]

Hi, unfortunately this does not work. The agent finds the powershell scripts but they all fail for an unknown reason. Even inline scripts don't run.

Example:

Failing task since return code of [powershell -ExecutionPolicy bypass -Command C:\Users\BambooAgent\bamboo-agent-home\xml-data\build-dir\XYZ-MS-JOB1\K-Build\pre-build.ps1 C:\Users\BambooAgent\bamboo-agent-home\xml-data\build-dir\XYZ-MS-JOB1\K-Build] was -1 while expected 0

[Maclean IT]

Can you logon as the BambooAgent and run powershell scripts ok?

Also, obvious but have you followed https://confluence.atlassian.com/bamboo/running-bamboo-as-a-windows-service-as-the-local-user-416580754.html and restarted the remote agent service?

Also check the agent logs on the machine, mine showed that the reason for my -1 error code was that powershell was not a recognised command (because it wasn't included in the user path which was being read instead of system path)

Also worth checking that the bamboo agent service has sufficient permissions to run I guess. 

Can't think of much else to try, sorry.

[Stefan Hausotte]

Yes, that's the tutorial I followed. I restarted the service and the server, too. I see the remote agent running with the correct user but all build jobs fail with the error above.

I can logon to the server with the user I want to use for the agent and run all PS scripts. 

[Maclean IT]

Anything in the remote agent logs?