From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 18 09:59:30 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB53116A4CE for ; Sun, 18 Jan 2004 09:59:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from kestrel.alerce.com (kestrel.alerce.com [209.182.219.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53EC843D66 for ; Sun, 18 Jan 2004 09:59:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hartzell@kestrel.alerce.com) Received: from rosebud.alerce.com (w092.z064001164.sjc-ca.dsl.cnc.net [64.1.164.92]) (authenticated bits=128) by kestrel.alerce.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i0IHx4LN043600 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Sun, 18 Jan 2004 09:59:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hartzell@kestrel.alerce.com) Received: from rosebud.alerce.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rosebud.alerce.com (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i0IHwwwL023962 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Sun, 18 Jan 2004 09:58:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hartzell@rosebud.alerce.com) Received: (from hartzell@localhost) by rosebud.alerce.com (8.12.9p2/8.12.9/Submit) id i0IHwvoM023959; Sun, 18 Jan 2004 09:58:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hartzell) From: George Hartzell MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16394.51553.280751.990205@rosebud.alerce.com> Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 09:58:57 -0800 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: VM 7.14 under 21.4 (patch 14) "Reasonable Discussion" XEmacs Lucid X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 'clamd / ClamAV version devel-20031103', clamav-milter version '0.60n' Subject: Should /nonexistent home dir actually exist? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: hartzell@kestrel.alerce.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 17:59:30 -0000 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.