# How to set 'authors' with PkgTemplates?

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-set-authors-with-pkgtemplates/83769
**Category:** Package Management
**Created:** [July 5, 2022, 10:42am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-set-authors-with-pkgtemplates/83769 "2022-07-05T10:42:22Z")
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### Author: ![\_stla](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/_stla/32/35613_2.png) [@\_stla](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/_stla)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2022, 10:42am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-set-authors-with-pkgtemplates/83769/1 "2022-07-05T10:42:22Z")

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Hello,

I’m using my work laptop and git is not configured with my personal github account. I set ‘authors’ with PkgTemplates but that does not work:

```julia
julia> t = Template(;user="stla", authors="Stéphane Laurent <l ****** p@outlook.fr>", plugins = [GitHubActions(), Codecov()])
ERROR: ArgumentError: Git: Global Git config is missing required value 'user.name'

```

Is it normal? What should I do?

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### Author: ![\_stla](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/_stla/32/35613_2.png) [@\_stla](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/_stla)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2022, 10:58am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-set-authors-with-pkgtemplates/83769/2 "2022-07-05T10:58:39Z")

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Ok, I temporarily modified the gitconfig file. But this is not normal, is it?