unknown groupid about chezmoi HOT 3 CLOSED

Thanks for the bug report.

The error occurs when chezmoi tries to determine your user group to populate the chezmoi.group template variable, specifically in these lines.

This is a strange error, as it looks like your user has group 210, but group 210 doesn't exist.

Please can you post the output of the following commands:

$ id

$ grep `whoami` /etc/passwd

$ awk -F: '$3 == "210"' /etc/group

I suspect this is a configuration error on your machine and you should change your user group to an existing group using the usermod -g GROUP command.

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$ id
uid=10201(christ) gid=210(niskgf) groups=210(niskgf)

The other two doesn't yield any results. When I talked to the IT staff about this they mentioned that our accounts are not managed in the local files but via an external directory service.
Also I don't have permission to change my group.

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OK, I see what's happening here. chezmoi is written in Go, and Go's standard library function for looking up groups reads from /etc/group. /etc/group does not exist on your system so the lookup fails. I'll add a work-around.

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