diff --git a/roles/pagure/frontend/tasks/main.yml b/roles/pagure/frontend/tasks/main.yml
index 59b925b782..39c260a9b8 100644
--- a/roles/pagure/frontend/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/pagure/frontend/tasks/main.yml
@@ -142,6 +142,18 @@
   - gitolite
   - pagure
 
+# Set things up for the mirroring feature
+
+- name: create the `mirror` user
+  user:
+      name: mirror
+      group: mirror
+      shell: /bin/nologin
+      home: /srv/mirror
+  when: env == 'pagure-staging'
+  tags:
+  - pagure
+  - mirror
 
 # Set-up postfix and the milter for postfix