Maybe even os.geteuid() fails

Co-authored-by: Kenneth Hoste <kenneth.hoste@ugent.be>

Author: ocaisa

easybuild/tools/options.py

@@ -244,12 +244,14 @@ def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
         self.default_robot_paths = get_paths_for(subdir=EASYCONFIGS_PKG_SUBDIR, robot_path=None) or []
 
         # set up constants to seed into config files parser, by section
-        user = "unknown_userid"
         try:
             user = pwd.getpwuid(os.geteuid()).pw_name
         except KeyError:
-            # On some systems you may not have NSS on compute nodes, but the envvars will be available
-            user = os.getenv("USER") or os.getenv("LOGNAME") or str(os.geteuid())
+            # On some systems you may not have NSS on compute nodes, but the env vars should be available
+            try:
+                user = os.getenv("USER") or os.getenv("LOGNAME") or str(os.geteuid())
+            except:
+                user = "unknown_userid"
         self.go_cfg_constants = {
             self.DEFAULTSECT: {
                 'DEFAULT_REPOSITORYPATH': (self.default_repositorypath[0],