There was a thread here last month "Recommended way to setup a windows agent nowadays?"
I have a (new) windows agent (Windows Server 2019) that is connected through SSH, as described in that thread. It's configured through Packer and Ansible, to avoid clickety-click Next-Next-Next-Finish. I have a user "jenkins" on Windows, who is a regular user, not an Administrator. When I start a job on this new agent, I get this error: *00:00:09.445* Installing C:\Users\jenkins\tools\hudson.model.JDK\jdk-8-oracle\jdk.exe *00:00:09.475* [jdk-8-oracle] $ C:\Users\jenkins\tools\hudson.model.JDK\jdk-8-oracle\jdk.exe /s ADDLOCAL="ToolsFeature" REBOOT=ReallySuppress INSTALLDIR=C:\Users\jenkins\tools\hudson.model.JDK\jdk-8-oracle /L C:\Users\jenkins\tools\hudson.model.JDK\install6146141972686424355log *00:00:10.064* ERROR: SEVERE ERROR occurs *00:00:10.064* org.jenkinsci.lib.envinject.EnvInjectException: java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "C:\Users\jenkins\tools\hudson.model.JDK\jdk-8-oracle\jdk.exe" (in directory "C:\Users\jenkins\tools\hudson.model.JDK\jdk-8-oracle"): CreateProcess error=740, The requested operation requires elevation In short, Jenkins launches the Oracle JDK 8 installer, to install in C:\Users\jenkins\tools\hudson.model.JDK\jdk-8-oracle, and it fails to do, because the Oracle installer program, jdk.exe, requires elevated privileges to be able to install JDK8. This contrasts with OpenJDK installers, which are just zip files that are extracted into the install directory and do not require elevated privileges. (context: we have builds that need to run on more than one JDK, because legacy products) In Ye Olden Days I know that Java Web Start was used to connect windows agents, and that allows you to register Jenkins as a service, which then has the required elevated privileges to install software (I think, not sure, I'm basically a Linux user for the better part of 2 decades). But as we all know, Java Web Start is going the way of the dodo, and I feel more at ease if my Linux agents and my Windows agents are configured in exactly the same way. I have a backup plan, and that is to extract the JDK8 installation directory from the Oracle installer, zip that, put it on our Artifactory server, and use the zip as an installer in Global Tool Configuration. Before I do that, I would like to hear if others have encountered this issue before and how they have solved it. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to jenkinsci-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/dd38ac37-1952-48a7-aafd-19fd3cd092d4n%40googlegroups.com.
