Gitlab and git user

Question

I just installed gitlab ce on my server. It's an already apache running server. First issue, was to change the port to not conflict with gitlab. Great. Now, gitlab automatically created its own git user, the problem is that I already had a git user. Now each time I log in through ssh, instead of going through my regular created git user home folder, it goes into /var/opt/gitlab.

So what's happening. Plus, the whole bash is completely different, only shows $, I know it can be fixed with .bash_rc ~/profile but still.

Is there anyway to fix this scramble.

Also, I have another question, Is it possible to use my apache server and configure a virtualhost instead of creating a whole new server running alongside with a different port ?

EDIT 1

For installing on apache if you have apache and therefore save resources without having 2 instance of webserver running and have a nice git.yourdomain.com Follow this tutorial here: http://doc.gitlab.com/omnibus/settings/nginx.html#using-a-non-bundled-web-server

user2926055 · Accepted Answer · 2016-03-17 22:17:42Z

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See the docs about changing gitlab's default git user/group:

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/omnibus-gitlab/blob/629def0a7a26e7c2326566f0758d4a27857b52a3/README.md#changing-the-name-of-the-git-user-group

This link is in the gitlab.rb config file, btw. :-)

answered Mar 17, 2016 at 22:17

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delmalki Over a year ago

I didn't want to do that though because in the documentation, it warned about unexpected behavior...

user2926055 Over a year ago

What was the existing git user being used for? Can you just move whatever that git user was doing to some other user? It sounds like you were using it for interactive login, which smells a bit funny: the git user is traditionally a non-interactive user account that only uses git-shell to run git commands, even without gitlab in the mix.

delmalki Over a year ago

I didnt know there was a tradition behind the user git, In fact, the user git hosted my repository and I gave it an interactive shell because I like my shell to be coloured especially since I was going through the .git to create some hook scripts. I guess I can remove the git user now since I transferred the repo to gitlab. Anyways, it was the first time I have seen .deb rewrites a user and modify the home folder location. I was quite surprised.

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