Ok, I just commented out the Ruby block in each script that creates the user. It seems to be up and running now.
On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 8:11 AM, Benjamin Flynn < benjamin.fl...@bflysoftware.com> wrote: > 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 a topic in the > Google Groups "GitLab" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/gitlabhq/sqcsc17ylOg/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, 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 > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gitlabhq/417c4607-e42f-4c8f-aa51-5c93aba16c5d%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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/CA%2BHuuV2GV%2B1FS8874JXmL6d_YCeTgYp7bsPb7HREP1JLKfuPVg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
