From 41a8c14acb9657f10238da74c9177642cad1b286 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Moritz Poldrack <33086936+mpldr@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2022 23:56:57 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] add information on how to create a headscale user

---
 docs/running-headscale-linux.md | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/running-headscale-linux.md b/docs/running-headscale-linux.md
index 166851b0..55b002f6 100644
--- a/docs/running-headscale-linux.md
+++ b/docs/running-headscale-linux.md
@@ -30,6 +30,8 @@ mkdir -p /etc/headscale
 
 # Directory for Database, and other variable data (like certificates)
 mkdir -p /var/lib/headscale
+# or if you create a headscale user:
+useradd -md /var/lib/headscale/ -rUs /usr/bin/nologin headscale
 ```
 
 4. Create an empty SQLite database: