# Pre-req # sudo adduser gitea --home /opt/gitea # sudo mkdir -p /opt/gitea/ /var/log/gitea # sudo chown -R gitea:gitea /opt/gitea/ /var/log/gitea [Unit] Description=Gitea - Git with a cup of tea. A painless self-hosted Git service. Documentation=https://docs.gitea.io/ After=network-online.target Wants=network-online.target systemd-networkd-wait-online.service [Service] # Restart on crash (bad signal), but not on 'clean' failure (error exit code) # Allow up to 3 restarts within 10 seconds # (it's unlikely that a user or properly-running script will do this) Restart=on-abnormal StartLimitInterval=10 StartLimitBurst=3 # User and group the process will run as # (git is the de facto standard on most systems) User=gitea Group=gitea WorkingDirectory=/opt/gitea # custom directory cannot be set and will be the place where gitea exists, not the working directory ExecStart=/opt/gitea/gitea web --config /opt/gitea/custom/conf/app.ini ExecReload=/bin/kill -USR1 $MAINPID # Limit the number of file descriptors and processes; see `man systemd.exec` for more limit settings. # Unmodified gitea is not expected to use more than this. LimitNOFILE=1048576 LimitNPROC=64 # Use private /tmp and /var/tmp, which are discarded after gitea stops. PrivateTmp=true # Use a minimal /dev PrivateDevices=true # Hide /home, /root, and /run/user. Nobody will steal your SSH-keys. ProtectHome=true # Make /usr, /boot, /etc and possibly some more folders read-only. ProtectSystem=full # ... except /opt/gitea because we want a place for the database # and /var/log/gitea because we want a place where logs can go. # This merely retains r/w access rights, it does not add any new. # Must still be writable on the host! ReadWriteDirectories=/opt/gitea /var/log/gitea # Note: in v231 and above ReadWritePaths has been renamed to ReadWriteDirectories ; ReadWritePaths=/opt/gitea /var/log/gitea # The following additional security directives only work with systemd v229 or later. # They further retrict privileges that can be gained by gitea. # Note that you may have to add capabilities required by any plugins in use. CapabilityBoundingSet=CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE AmbientCapabilities=CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE NoNewPrivileges=true # Caveat: Some features may need additional capabilities. # For example an "upload" may need CAP_LEASE ; CapabilityBoundingSet=CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE CAP_LEASE ; AmbientCapabilities=CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE CAP_LEASE ; NoNewPrivileges=true [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target