Permission denied error while building a project using Ansible on jenkins

Question

I've created a job in jenkins and I want to build the project using ansible but I get the following error:

/home/ubuntu/install.sh -s -U ubuntu -f 5
FATAL: command execution failed
java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "/usr/bin/ansible" (in directory "/var/lib/jenkins/jobs/Demo/workspace"): error=13, Permission denied
  at java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(ProcessBuilder.java:1047)
  at hudson.Proc$LocalProc.<init>(Proc.java:244)
  at hudson.Proc$LocalProc.<init>(Proc.java:216)

Answer 1

Your Jenkins job is running as default user which does not have a shell and a shell would be required for Ansible. Try changing the user that you're using and let me know.