Jenkins Pipeline - Agent used with wrong user - jenkins

I have a simple Jenkins pipeline script like this:
pipeline {
agent {
label 'agent2'
}
stages {
stage('test') {
steps {
build job: 'doSomething'
}
}
}
}
When running the job, it starts correctly on the node "agent2", but it runs as 'jenkins' (the OS shell user of the master server where Jenkins is installed) instead of the OS SSH Shell user of the node.
The node has own credentials assigned to it, but they are not used.
When I run the job "doSomething" on its own and set "Restrict where this project can be run" to "node1" everything is fine. The job then is run by the correct user.
This behaviour can be easily recreated:
1. create a new OS user (pw: testrpm)
sudo useradd -m testrpm
sudo passwd testrpm
2. create a new node and use this settings:
3. create a freestyle job (called 'doSomething) with a shell step which does 'whoami'
doSomething Job XML
4. create a pipeline job and paste this code into the pipeline script
pipeline {
agent {
label 'agent2'
}
stages {
stage('test') {
steps {
build job: 'doSomething'
}
}
}
}
test-pipeline Job XML
5. run the pipeline and check the console output of the 'doSomething' job. The output of 'whoami' is not 'testrpm' but 'jenkins'
Can somebody explain this behaviour and tell me where the error is ?
If I change the "Usage" of the built-in node to "Only build jobs with label expressions matching this node", than it works as expected an the "doSomething" job is called with the user testrpm:

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