Re: Do we need both /nonexistent and /var/empty in /etc/passwd?

Reply: Dewayne Geraghty : "Re: Do we need both /nonexistent and /var/empty in /etc/passwd?"
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From: Dag-Erling_Smørgrav <des_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2024 09:14:16 UTC

Dewayne Geraghty <dewayne@heuristicsystems.com.au> writes:
> As I suspect its historical, I've deleted /var/empty and restarting
> services to see if its actually needed.

I assure you it's needed for sshd.

DES
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