I did try changing those settings before posting here. ;-) What I find is that if I switch the gitlab user to an *existing* user that the reconfigure task fails when it tries to create the gitlab user. I did choose a UID and a GID for the user and I did not actually point it to the users home directory. I'll play with these settings.
- Ben On Wednesday, March 18, 2015 at 6:19:26 AM UTC-7, Achilleas Pipis wrote: > > On 03/17/2015 07:25 PM, Benjamin Flynn wrote: > > I am trying to set up GitLab Omnibus on an Ubuntu linux box. I cannot > > create new users on this box, but there is an existing user account I > > can use to run services with. I tried setting the gitlab.rb config file > > to use this user, but it appears that the reconfigure command tries to > > create this user anyway, then fails. > > > > Let's call this user 'specialuser'. How can GitLab be configured to have > > all its processes (nginx, rails, etc) run as 'specialuser'? > > > > Thanks for your help! > > Use these settings > > > https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/omnibus-gitlab/blob/bf52acc37b2a88f55309f48f9a40156aa6e03993/files/gitlab-config-template/gitlab.rb.template#L190 > > > Not all services are run by the same user, though. Nginx uses its own > for example. > > -- > GPG : 0x3A7DDABC985EDC6E > Blog: http://axilleas.me > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GitLab" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to gitlabhq+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gitlabhq/417c4607-e42f-4c8f-aa51-5c93aba16c5d%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
