With default config: 2018/05/07 19:20:20 [...s/setting/setting.go:923 NewContext()] [E] Error saving generated JWT Secret to custom config: open /var/lib/gitea/conf/app.ini: permission denied because # ls /var/lib/gitea/conf/app.ini -al -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20408 May 7 19:17 /var/lib/gitea/conf/app.ini init script suggests user/group git:git would be better
Already fixed in 1.4.3.