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Recommend that users use a non-privelaged user (thanks Elrond for the text)

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@ -58,6 +58,24 @@ running a smaller instance, consider following our `scaling down
<http://wiki.mediagoblin.org/Scaling_Down>`_ guide (keeping in mind
that the steps recommended here are tradeoffs!).
Decide on a non-privileged user
===============================
As MediaGoblin does not require any special permissions, you
should either decide on a user to run it as, or even better create a
dedicated user for it. Consult your distribution's documentation on
how to create dedicated service user. Make sure it does have a locked
password, so nobody can login using this user.
You should create a working dir for MediaGoblin. We assume you will
check things out into /srv/mediagoblin.example.org/mediagoblin/ for
this documentation, but you can choose whatever fits your local needs.
Most of the remaining documentation assumes you're working as that
user. As root, you might want to do "su - mediagoblinuser".
Install MediaGoblin and Virtualenv
==================================
@ -66,6 +84,10 @@ bleeding edge version of mediagoblin in mediagoblin master (possibly
not the best choice in a production environment, so these docs should
be fixed ;)).
Change to (and possibly make) the appropriate parent directory:
cd /srv/mediagoblin.example.org/
Clone the repository:
git clone git://gitorious.org/mediagoblin/mediagoblin.git