diff --git a/roles/distgit/templates/genacls.pkgdb.stg b/roles/distgit/templates/genacls.pkgdb.stg
index 44018798c4..62045aa367 100644
--- a/roles/distgit/templates/genacls.pkgdb.stg
+++ b/roles/distgit/templates/genacls.pkgdb.stg
@@ -13,6 +13,12 @@ import json
 import requests
 from sqlalchemy.exc import SQLAlchemyError
 
+
+if 'PAGURE_CONFIG' not in os.environ \
+        and os.path.exists('/etc/pagure/pagure.cfg'):
+    print 'Using configuration file `/etc/pagure/pagure.cfg`'
+    os.environ['PAGURE_CONFIG'] = '/etc/pagure/pagure.cfg'
+
 import pagure
 from pagure import SESSION