diff --git a/recipes-protocols/libtango/libtango.inc b/recipes-protocols/libtango/libtango.inc
index a5cae99..1125311 100644
--- a/recipes-protocols/libtango/libtango.inc
+++ b/recipes-protocols/libtango/libtango.inc
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ SRC_URI = "https://gitlab.com/tango-controls/cppTango/-/archive/${PV}/cppTango-$
 S = "${WORKDIR}/cppTango-${PV}"
 
 DEPENDS = "omniorb-native omniorb tango-idl zeromq cppzmq jpeg"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = "tango-common"
 
 EXTRA_OECMAKE += " -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release"
 
diff --git a/recipes-support/tango-common/tango-common/tangorc b/recipes-support/tango-common/tango-common/tangorc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..34c5a56
--- /dev/null
+++ b/recipes-support/tango-common/tango-common/tangorc
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+TANGO_HOST=localhost:10000
diff --git a/recipes-support/tango-common/tango-common_1.0.bb b/recipes-support/tango-common/tango-common_1.0.bb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9b1535f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/recipes-support/tango-common/tango-common_1.0.bb
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+SUMMARY = "Common configuration for Tango Controls"
+LICENSE = "MIT"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://${COREBASE}/meta/files/common-licenses/MIT;md5=0835ade698e0bcf8506ecda2f7b4f302"
+
+SRC_URI = "file://tangorc"
+
+inherit allarch
+
+TANGO_HOME ?= "/opt/tango"
+TANGO_UID ?= "500"
+TANGO_GID ?= "500"
+USERADD_PACKAGES = "${PN}"
+GROUPADD_PARAM:${PN} = "-g ${TANGO_GID} tango"
+USERADD_PARAM:${PN} = "-u ${TANGO_UID} -g tango -d ${TANGO_HOME} -m -N -r -s /bin/sh tango"
+inherit useradd
+
+do_install() {
+	install -D -m 0644 ${WORKDIR}/tangorc ${D}${sysconfdir}/tangorc
+}
+