diff --git a/sandbox/jenkins-test b/sandbox/jenkins-test
index d197e63b..f5d20b6d 100755
--- a/sandbox/jenkins-test
+++ b/sandbox/jenkins-test
@@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ export PERCONA_TOOLKIT_BRANCH="$PWD"
 export PERCONA_TOOLKIT_SANDBOX="$MYSQL_BASE_DIR"
 export PATH="$PATH:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:$MYSQL_BASE_DIR/bin"
 export LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
+export USER="${USER:-"jenkins"}"
 
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 # Remove conf files that's shouldn't exist. #