docs/source/siteadmin/deploying.rst

It says to create the mediagoblin user with the --system option. Then it says to create the directory in srv and chown it to mediagoblin:mediagoblin. However when I do that, chown complains that it's an invalid group. From the adduser man page:

By default, system users are placed in the nogroup group. To place the new system user in an already existing group, use the --gid or --ingroup options. To place the new system user in a new group with the same ID, use the --group option.

Sounds like it doesn't automatically create a group.

I'm on Debian 7, perhaps it's different in a different distribution.

The documentation says to create a system user for the unprivileged user that runs mediagoblin. On my system, this meant that I couldn't su into it (and there was no error message when I tried and failed). Looking around online, it sounds like this is intentional. If it's a system user, it's not meant to have a shell. Its shell is /bin/false. So here's a way to do it anyway:

sudo su - mediagoblin -s /bin/bash

or

su - mediagoblin -s /bin/bash

I'm on Debian 7.

It'd be nice to be able to upload Nikon NEF and Canon CR2 directly to MediaGoblin and let it handle the files.

(Actually, it's even more useful when /not/ uploading but just ingesting local files directly ;))