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Commit 97f9a71bd5813fb6018ccd245e4579c9d4d77f23

Authored by Michael Fenn
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Documentation for changing the git user name

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CHANGELOG
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1 1 7.0.0
2 2 - Specify numeric user / group identifiers
3 3 - Support AWS S3 attachment storage
  4 +- Support changing the name of the "git" user / group (Michael Fenn)
4 5  
5 6 6.9.0
6 7 - Make SSH port in clone URLs configurable (Julien Pivotto)
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README.md
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... ... @@ -171,6 +171,21 @@ git_data_dir "/mnt/nas/git-data"
171 171  
172 172 Run `sudo gitlab-ctl reconfigure` for the change to take effect.
173 173  
  174 +### Changing the name of the Git user / group
  175 +
  176 +By default, omnibus-gitlab uses the user name `git` for Git gitlab-shell login,
  177 +ownership of the Git data itself, and SSH URL generation on the web interface.
  178 +Similarly, `git` group is used for group ownership of the Git data. You can
  179 +change the user and group by adding the following lines to
  180 +`/etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb`.
  181 +
  182 +```ruby
  183 +user['username'] = "gitlab"
  184 +user['group'] = "gitlab"
  185 +```
  186 +
  187 +Run `sudo gitlab-ctl reconfigure` for the change to take effect.
  188 +
174 189 ### Setting up LDAP sign-in
175 190  
176 191 If you have an LDAP directory service such as Active Directory, you can configure
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