mcodd/cdist — comment on commit acb4644f1ed6941d81d98c0323c936c3c4ae6e16
File: conf/type/__group/explorer/gshadow line 30
By telmich:

grep /etc/gshadow is unfortuanetly not the same as getent => getent looks in whatever is specified in /etc/nsswitch.conf. Is it possible your testing environment does not have shadow configured in nsswitch correctly?