Jenkins cannot open directory Permission denied

Question

I am using Jenkins to 'execute shell' command

ls -l /mnt/ftpbackup/ftpuser/*

But getting error

ls: cannot open directory /mnt/ftpbackup/ftpuser/: Permission denied

Answer 1

Try whoami command to find out which user jenkins is using to execute commands.

pass a command in "execute shell" as "whoami"

If you are executing in any node, jenkins will connect to that node using the credentials you have provided in node settings, please have a look at that.