Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 09:58:57 -0800 From: George Hartzell <hartzell@kestrel.alerce.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Should /nonexistent home dir actually exist? Message-ID: <16394.51553.280751.990205@rosebud.alerce.com>
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I just noticed
a) that several accounts (from ports stuff, it seems) on a -stable
system use /nonexistent as their home directory
(ghost)[9:50am]log>>grep nonexist /etc/passwd
pop:*:68:6:Post Office Owner:/nonexistent:/sbin/nologin
www:*:80:80:World Wide Web Owner:/nonexistent:/sbin/nologin
nobody:*:65534:65534:Unprivileged user:/nonexistent:/sbin/nologin
gdm:*:92:92:GNOME Display Manager:/nonexistent:/sbin/nologin
dnslog:*:1002:1002:DJBdns Logger:/nonexistent:/sbin/nologin
dnscache:*:1003:1003:DJBdns Cache owner:/nonexistent:/sbin/nlogin
stunnel:*:1004:1004:stunnel Daemon:/nonexistent:/sbin/nologin
cyrus:*:60:60:the cyrus mail server:/nonexistent:/sbin/nologin
ldap:*:389:389:OpenLDAP Server:/nonexistent:/sbin/nologin
and
b) that it seems to exist....
(ghost)[9:50am]log>>ls -la /nonexistent/
total 20
drwxr-xr-x 2 ftp ftp 512 Jun 1 2003 .
drwxr-xr-x 20 root wheel 512 Jan 15 12:07 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 dnslog dnslog 771 Jun 1 2003 .cshrc
-rw-r--r-- 1 dnslog dnslog 255 Jun 1 2003 .login
-rw-r--r-- 1 dnslog dnslog 165 Jun 1 2003 .login_conf
-rw------- 1 dnslog dnslog 371 Jun 1 2003 .mail_aliases
-rw-r--r-- 1 dnslog dnslog 331 Jun 1 2003 .mailrc
-rw-r--r-- 1 dnslog dnslog 801 Jun 1 2003 .profile
-rw------- 1 dnslog dnslog 276 Jun 1 2003 .rhosts
-rw-r--r-- 1 dnslog dnslog 852 Jun 1 2003 .shrc
The name suggests that it shouldn't actually exist, presumably as a
security measure.
Should I leave it as is, blow away the /nonexistent homedir, is it a
ports problem, or ???
g.
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