This plugin makes the user id that started a build available as *environment variable*. -------------------- **ATTENTION:** This Plugin has/had problems with Jenkins versions \>= 1.442 (or somesuch) : [JENKINS-12074](https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-12074) **There is another (newer) plugin available that allegedly should do "the same" thing:** **[Build User Vars Plugin](https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Build+User+Vars+Plugin)** -------------------- JENKINS_STARTED_BY This is the same information that Jenkins normally displays in the Console Output on the first line Started by user ...