OpenVPN Error:failed to find GID for group nogroup

Sometimes when you try to start the OpenVPN server, you might get this error :

failed to find GID for group nogroup

First you need to check the group ‘nogroup’ exists ,

cut -d: -f1 /etc/group | grep no

This will display if the group exists : and if there is no group ‘nogroup’ ,add it

groupadd nogroup

This might solve your GID issues but might get another user UID error:

failed to find UID for user

To solve this , add the user ‘nogroup’ and add it to the group ‘nogroup’

useradd nogroup -g nogroup