We recently moved to GitLab and started setting up GitLab CI. I registered a specific runner to a build server which resulted in the creation of a ‘gitlab-runner’ account which GitLab CI uses to run the pipeline jobs. My problem is that the ‘gitlab-runner’ account doesn’t have adequate permissions to access some resources we use and I can’t fix this because I don’t know what the password for the account is (I don’t remember entering a password). What is the default password for this account?
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if you are a unix system and you do not remember the password you can do these stuffs:
sudo su
Now, Enter your password
passwd gitlab-runner
Now, Enter new password for gitlab-runner
That’s it really!
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Do runner processes need to know the old password? could this break anything?
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I think that’s a valid concern. Then, according to "Install GitLab Runner manually on GNU/Linux (gitlab.com), it’s the user (not the system) who creates the user gitlab-runner (by useradd command), so it’s your call. From this I doubt changing password would cause an issue.
I have same question. Is your problem solved?
Or the runner by design assume the user is private, should not be accessed?
I figured out the solution.
· sudo su gitlab-runner ·
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