title: In Jenkins, how do builds know who requested them?
body: <p>I need to pass the username of the requester of a build down to the script that is actually doing the work.  Looking at the console output for a particular build, the first line is always &quot;Started by user foo,&quot; so Jenkins is clearly keeping track of who triggered the build.  So it should be possible to pass that information down to the job. The question is, how?</p>