I am using the Omnibus GitLab CE system with LDAP authentication.
Because of LDAP authentication, anyone in my company can sign in to GitLab and a new GitLab user account associated with this user is created (according to my understanding).
I want to modify it so that by default this new user (who can automatically sign in based on his LDAP credentials) cannot create new projects.
Then, I as the admin, will probably handle most new project creation.
I might give the Create Project permission to a few special users.
This is not a setting in config/gitlab.yml but rather in the GUI for admins.
Simply navigate to https://___[your GitLab URL]___/admin/application_settings/general#js-account-settings, and set Default projects limit to 0.
You can then access individual users's project limit at https://___[your GitLab URL]___/admin/users.
See GitLab's update docs for more settings changed between v7.7 and v7.8.
git diff origin/7-7-stable:config/gitlab.yml.example origin/7-8-stable:config/gitlab.yml.example