How can I change the users home directory in bamboo ?

[Hector Magnanao]

When I look at the properties of my remote agent,  the users home directory is being set to C:\Users\TEMP.  Is there a way to set it to the C:\Users\<user running bamboo> ?

I'm referring to the users home directory.  Not the bamboo build directory.

[rsperafico]

Hi @Hector Magnanao,

If you already have a remote agent running, you could:

1. stop Bamboo remote agent
2. edit <bamboo-remote-home>/conf/wrapper.conf and update property to point to the chosen location in filesystem:

   wrapper.java.additional.1=-Dbamboo.home=C:\Users\TEMP

3. copy <bamboo-remote-home> to the location specified above
4. start Bamboo remote agent

If you are installing a new remote agent, you can provide <bamboo-remote-home> directory in java command:

java -Dbamboo.home=/path/to/bamboo-remote-home -jar atlassian-bamboo-agent-installer-X.X-SNAPSHOT.jar http://bamboo-host-server:8085/agentServer/

Please, refer to the following documentation for further information:

• https://confluence.atlassian.com/bamboo/bamboo-remote-agent-installation-guide-289276832.html
• https://confluence.atlassian.com/bamboo/additional-remote-agent-options-436044733.html

Note: User running Bamboo remote agent must have full access to the directory specified.

Kind regards,

Rafael

[Hector Magnanao]

Hi Rafael,

the bamboo home directory is set correctly.  It's the bamboo users home directory that is being set to C:\Users\TEMP.  It should be set to C:\Users\<bamboo account>

This is causing the builds to fail because it can't find the settings.xml file in the correct folder.  I can't use the current directory because it might be removed one day.

[Hector Magnanao]

The system properties of the bamboo agent is attached.  The problem is circled in red.

[rsperafico]

Hi @Hector Magnanao,

That is the temp directory and you can updated it by:

1. stop Bamboo remote agent
2. edit <bamboo-remote-home>/conf/wrapper.conf and update property to point to the chosen location in filesystem:

   wrapper.java.additional.X=-Djava.io.tmpdir=C:\Users\TEMP

   where .X is the following number in sequence
3. copy <bamboo-remote-home> to the location specified above
4. start Bamboo remote agent

Kind regards,

Rafael

[Hector Magnanao]

Hi Rafael,

When I tried to set that variable to C:\Users\3_bamboo in the wrapper.conf file, the User Home is being set to C:\

I would like to set User Home in that window to C:\Users\3_bamboo

I believe that if I can set the User Home to this value, then the temporary directory will also be set correctly.

How do I set the User Home directory in that conf file ?

[rsperafico]

Hi @Hector Magnanao,

Could you share wrapper.conf displaying all wrapper.java.additional properties?

What is the output for Temporary directory?

What is the user running Bamboo remote agent? If running as a Windows Service, please run using Local user instead of System.

What is the output of command from CMD?

echo %homepath%

Kind regards,

Rafael

[Hector Magnanao]

Hi @rsperafico

contents of wrapper.conf (default content):

# The Bamboo Agent home configuration file
wrapper.java.additional.1=-Dbamboo.home="D:\bamboo-agent-home"
wrapper.java.additional.2=-Dbamboo.agent.ignoreServerCertName=false
#wrapper.java.additional.3=-Dlog4j.configuration=
#wrapper.java.additional.3=-agentlib:yjpagent

output for temporary directory:

Temporary directoryC:\Users\TEMP\AppData\Local\Temp\

the user running Bamboo remote agent is 3_bamboo.  This is the service account that we need to run in bamboo. 

Unfortunately we are not allowed to login directly into the bamboo agent as a service account.  I can only login as myself. so echo %homepath%

C:\Users\i842625>echo %homepath%
\Users\i842625

[rsperafico]

Hi @Hector Magnanao,

In the same way Bamboo gets the temporary directory, e.g:

tempDir = sysProps.getProperty("java.io.tmpdir");

You could try and set up a new user home directory by providing "-Duser.home" as property that should be read by Bamboo from:

userHome = sysProps.getProperty("user.home");

So wrapper.conf should be:

# The Bamboo Agent home configuration file
wrapper.java.additional.1=-Dbamboo.home="D:\bamboo-agent-home"
wrapper.java.additional.2=-Dbamboo.agent.ignoreServerCertName=false
wrapper.java.additional.3=-Duser.home="C:\Users\<user running bamboo>"
#wrapper.java.additional.3=-Dlog4j.configuration=
#wrapper.java.additional.3=-agentlib:yjpagent

Kind regards,

Rafael

[Hector Magnanao]

Rafael

Where do I set this variable in ?

userHome = sysProps.getProperty("user.home"); 

[rsperafico]

Hi @Hector Magnanao,

You don't, simply add the property -Duser.home to wrapper.conf as mentioned previously.

# The Bamboo Agent home configuration file
wrapper.java.additional.1=-Dbamboo.home="D:\bamboo-agent-home"
wrapper.java.additional.2=-Dbamboo.agent.ignoreServerCertName=false
wrapper.java.additional.3=-Duser.home="C:\Users\<user running bamboo>"
#wrapper.java.additional.3=-Dlog4j.configuration=
#wrapper.java.additional.3=-agentlib:yjpagent

Note: Bamboo remote agent must be restarted so changes can be applied.

Kind regards,

Rafael

[Hector Magnanao]

Hi @rsperafico

Ok, so that worked.  I see that the user home directory is now set correctly.  

But,  it looks like C:\Users\temp is still being used by the build.  It appears that way because the repository is being created under C:\Users\Temp.  

Any ideas why this is happening ?

[rsperafico]

Hi @Hector Magnanao,

It appears that way because the repository is being created under C:\Users\Temp.

Are you referring to the repository caching? What is the content of C:\Users\temp?

Kind regards,

Rafael

[Hector Magnanao]

Hi @rsperafico

Yes.  The content is .m2, settings files and the repository folders in it.

[rsperafico]

Hi @Hector Magnanao,

Please, raise a support case under https://support.atlassian.com so information related to directory and build logs can be shared.

Kind regards,

Rafael