--- a/prosody.cfg.lua.dist
+++ b/prosody.cfg.lua.dist
@@ -17,6 +17,15 @@
 -- Settings in this section apply to the whole server and are the default settings
 -- for any virtual hosts
 
+-- Prosody will use this user and group for launching the service.
+-- Gentoo uses by default jabber:jabber (uid:gid) for all Jabber related services.
+prosody_user = "jabber"
+prosody_group = "jabber"
+
+-- Prosody will create this pid file after it has been successfully started.
+-- Please don't change that path, as it's being used by the Gentoo init scripts.
+pidfile = "/run/jabber/prosody.pid"
+
 -- This is a (by default, empty) list of accounts that are admins
 -- for the server. Note that you must create the accounts separately
 -- (see https://prosody.im/doc/creating_accounts for info)
@@ -30,7 +39,9 @@
 -- Prosody will always look in its source directory for modules, but
 -- this option allows you to specify additional locations where Prosody
 -- will look for modules first. For community modules, see https://modules.prosody.im/
---plugin_paths = {}
+-- The default included path is for the optional net-im/prosody-modules package,
+-- which provides additional community maintained modules.
+plugin_paths = { "/usr/GENTOO_LIBDIR/prosody/community-modules" };
 
 -- This is the list of modules Prosody will load on startup.
 -- It looks for mod_modulename.lua in the plugins folder, so make sure that exists too.