gitolite package doesn't create user

Question

I installed gitolite using

apt-get install gitolite

and according to this tutorial (and many others) there should be a gitolite user but when i do

su - gitolite

i get Unknown id: gitolite

Do i need to created it manually? I have to add that this is the second time i try to install gitolite, so i first removed it and then reinstalled it. Maybe there is some stuff left that wasn't remove?

Answer 1

Just run the following command and the user will be created:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure gitolite