From owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Sun Nov 10 11:40:25 2019 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D95871B1E6C for ; Sun, 10 Nov 2019 11:40:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eugen@grosbein.net) Received: from hz.grosbein.net (hz.grosbein.net [IPv6:2a01:4f8:c2c:26d8::2]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "hz.grosbein.net", Issuer "hz.grosbein.net" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 479sWX20Vnz3PCC for ; Sun, 10 Nov 2019 11:40:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eugen@grosbein.net) Received: from eg.sd.rdtc.ru (eg.sd.rdtc.ru [IPv6:2a03:3100:c:13:0:0:0:5]) by hz.grosbein.net (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPS id xAABeBPV005913 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT); Sun, 10 Nov 2019 11:40:14 GMT (envelope-from eugen@grosbein.net) X-Envelope-From: eugen@grosbein.net X-Envelope-To: joel.bertrand@systella.fr Received: from [10.58.0.4] (dadv@[10.58.0.4]) by eg.sd.rdtc.ru (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPS id xAABe2eE038350 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT); Sun, 10 Nov 2019 18:40:03 +0700 (+07) (envelope-from eugen@grosbein.net) Subject: Re: Strange trouble with ntpd account To: =?UTF-8?Q?BERTRAND_Jo=c3=abl?= , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org References: <35704598-f05d-d8bb-dca8-8c57ba746ea1@systella.fr> From: Eugene Grosbein Message-ID: <9eae960b-ff99-1322-e557-ead488e3739f@grosbein.net> Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2019 18:39:56 +0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <35704598-f05d-d8bb-dca8-8c57ba746ea1@systella.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,LOCAL_FROM, SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 X-Spam-Report: * -2.3 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1% * [score: 0.0000] * 0.0 SPF_HELO_NONE SPF: HELO does not publish an SPF Record * -0.0 SPF_PASS SPF: sender matches SPF record * 2.6 LOCAL_FROM From my domains X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on hz.grosbein.net X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 479sWX20Vnz3PCC X-Spamd-Bar: --- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=none; dmarc=none; spf=permerror (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of eugen@grosbein.net uses mechanism not recognized by this client) smtp.mailfrom=eugen@grosbein.net X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-3.68 / 15.00]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.00)[-1.000,0]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; TO_DN_SOME(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-1.000,0]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[grosbein.net]; RCVD_COUNT_THREE(0.00)[3]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_SOME(0.00)[]; R_SPF_PERMFAIL(0.00)[]; RCPT_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; IP_SCORE(-1.58)[ip: (-3.98), ipnet: 2a01:4f8::/29(-2.26), asn: 24940(-1.67), country: DE(-0.01)]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; ASN(0.00)[asn:24940, ipnet:2a01:4f8::/29, country:DE]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; RCVD_TLS_ALL(0.00)[] X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2019 11:40:25 -0000 10.11.2019 16:28, BERTRAND Joël wrote: > Hello, > > Yesterday, I have rebooted my diskless workstation running FreeBSD > 12.0-RELEASE-p10. I have seen that ntpd refuses to start : > > root@pythagore:/etc # /etc/rc.d/ntpd start > Starting ntpd. > su: unknown login: ntpd > /etc/rc.d/ntpd: WARNING: failed to start ntpd > root@pythagore:/etc # > > indeed : > > root@pythagore:/var/db/ntp # ls -al > total 16 > drwxr-xr-x 2 123 ntpd 512 Mar 20 2019 . > drwxr-xr-x 22 root wheel 1024 Oct 22 19:01 .. > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 8 Mar 20 2019 ntpd.drift > -rw-r--r-- 1 root ntpd 4 Mar 20 2019 ntpd.pid > > Please note user 123 instead of user ntpd. > I have tried to create a new file and change owner to ntpd without success : > > root@pythagore:/var/db/ntp # touch toto > root@pythagore:/var/db/ntp # chown ntpd toto > chown: ntpd: illegal user name > > I don't understand why ntpd user is illegal as this account exists in > /etc/master.passwd : > # $FreeBSD: releng/12.0/etc/master.passwd 337882 2018-08-15 23:18:34Z brd $ > # > root:$6$mNlwOa.XAsUQF0bo$RCxDWSK0Hc2HGWkT5f46R6zjRhfgKhiA8IGKbM9KkILUACC0fLnKf3jABGiHSxRLSJH/.SXXsjaZJi30.CGR21:0:0::0:0:Charlie > &:/root:/bin/csh > toor:*:0:0::0:0:Bourne-again Superuser:/root: > daemon:*:1:1::0:0:Owner of many system processes:/root:/usr/sbin/nologin > ... > www:*:80:80::0:0:World Wide Web Owner:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin > ntpd:*:123:123::0:0:NTP Daemon:/var/db/ntp:/usr/sbin/nologin The system does not use text file /etc/master.passwd but binary files /etc/pwd.db and /etc/swd.db and yours are out-of-sync with master.passwd for some reason. Just re-generate binary files from /etc/master.passwd and pwd_mkdb(8) manual page's EXAMPLE section suggests: /usr/sbin/pwd_mkdb -p /etc/master.passwd