Re: Do we need both /nonexistent and /var/empty in /etc/passwd?
- In reply to: Dewayne Geraghty : "Re: Do we need both /nonexistent and /var/empty in /etc/passwd?"
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Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2024 09:02:48 UTC
On 05/12/2024 02:03, Dewayne Geraghty wrote: >> You need to read hier(7). >> >> ;) >> >> ~Paul >> > > Thanks for the pointer. I'd forgotten about that page <headslap>. > > As I suspect its historical, I've deleted /var/empty and restarting > services to see if its actually needed. It'll take a few days but so > far, no impact. If all ok, then I'll just sed /etc/master.passwd. > Cheers. > Grepping the source (REL-13 as that's what I'm on) shows that sshd uses /var/empty as part of its privilege separation and fails if it can't chroot there. -- Although not designed for computation, PIO is quite likely Turing complete, provided a long enough piece of tape can be found. It is conjectured that it could run DOOM, given a sufficiently high clock speed. — The Raspberry Pi Pico datasheet on its PIO capability.