diff --git a/roles/mirrormanager/frontend2/tasks/main.yml b/roles/mirrormanager/frontend2/tasks/main.yml
index 71e82a54c2..63c64cf15d 100644
--- a/roles/mirrormanager/frontend2/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/mirrormanager/frontend2/tasks/main.yml
@@ -72,6 +72,12 @@
   - mm2_frontend
   - config
 
+- name: Create mirrormanager user
+  user: name=mirrormanager state=present home=/var/lib/mirrormanager createhome=yes shell=/sbin/nologin
+  tags:
+  - mm2_frontend
+  - config
+
 - name: install crawler log sync
   template: src=sync-crawler-logs.sh dest=/usr/local/bin/sync-crawler-logs.sh mode=0755
   tags: