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Ubuntu – How can I run sh commands in Jenkins without sudo

Right now my Jenkins runs without any errors with this commands;

stage("Deliver for Development"){
            agent any
            when {
                branch "development"
            }
            steps{
                sh 'sudo rm -rf /var/www/jenkins-weather-app'
                sh "sudo cp -r ${env.WORKSPACE}/build /var/www/jenkins-weather-app"
                sh "sudo ls /var/www/jenkins-weather-app"
                // sh './scripts/kill.sh'
            }
        }

It ran because I add this line of code to my sudoers file in ubuntu

jenkins ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL

Somehow I believe this is not the right way to go about this. Without the sudo I get
errors like this

+ cp -r /var/lib/jenkins/workspace/react-weather-app_development/build /var/www/jenkins-weather-app

cp: cannot create directory '/var/www/jenkins-weather-app': Permission denied

script returned exit code 1

Is there a way of running the sh commands without sudo.

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    I discovered the jenkins user had no permission to write i.e modify the contents of the /var/www/ folder. What I did was to change the owner of the folder to jenkins, give it the permission of 740, and then I could modify the folder without using sudo. I don't know if this is the right approach but it worked without sudo.


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    Firstly, you don’t need sudo to work with any file/directory inside jenkins workspace; because they’d all belong to jenkins user.

    In this your situation that you want to deploy to web directory, you should create a user that has privileges to web deployment and belong to jenkins group to be able to r/w in jenkins workspace, like webmasters with ssh credential. SSh into the user to deployment the artifacts to the directory.

    This also helps you to use the same codebase to deploy to a remote machine with just change to credentialID using withCredential function.

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