diff --git a/src/centpkg/__main__.py b/src/centpkg/__main__.py
index 549e5b2..c696c69 100644
--- a/src/centpkg/__main__.py
+++ b/src/centpkg/__main__.py
@@ -29,17 +29,22 @@ def main():
     Centpkg main.
 
     """
-    # Setup an argparser and parse the known commands to get the config file
     program_name = os.path.basename(sys.argv[0])
 
-    # Modified ArgumentParser provides parameter "allow_abbrev=False" (which affects processing
-    # of commandline arguments with common prefix). Generaly it is available since python3.6.
-    
-    # This enables "allow_abbrev" for older python versions.
-    parser = pyrpkg.cli.ArgumentParser(add_help=False)
+    default_user_config_path = os.path.join(
+        os.path.expanduser('~'), '.config', 'rpkg', '%s.conf' % program_name)
+
+    # Setup an argparser and parse the known commands to get the config file
+
+    # - use the custom ArgumentParser class from pyrpkg.cli and disable
+    #   argument abbreviation to ensure that --user will be not treated as
+    #   --user-config
+    parser = pyrpkg.cli.ArgumentParser(add_help=False, allow_abbrev=False)
 
     parser.add_argument('-C', '--config', help='Specify a config file to use',
-                            default=f'/etc/rpkg/%s.conf' % program_name)
+                        default='/etc/rpkg/%s.conf' % program_name)
+    parser.add_argument('--user-config', help='Specify a user config file to use',
+                        default=default_user_config_path)
 
     (args, other) = parser.parse_known_args()
 
@@ -51,6 +56,7 @@ def main():
     # Setup a configuration object and read config file data
     config = ConfigParser.SafeConfigParser()
     config.read(args.config)
+    config.read(args.user_config)
 
     client = centpkg.cli.centpkgClient(config, name=program_name)
     client.do_imports(site='centpkg')