From nobody Thu Dec 05 09:14:16 2024 X-Original-To: questions@mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4Y3pcB0Kjvz5gBgj for ; Thu, 05 Dec 2024 09:14:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from des@freebsd.org) Received: from smtp.freebsd.org (smtp.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::24b:4]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256 client-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) client-digest SHA256) (Client CN "smtp.freebsd.org", Issuer "R10" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4Y3pc970Bbz4ZSk; Thu, 5 Dec 2024 09:14:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from des@freebsd.org) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=freebsd.org; s=dkim; t=1733390058; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=YBRUNEMfdv3a+9fCTMmo20ndABcfPRf++oE10hMUjF4=; b=StjnYN8DlOmpXjToQ8BQIIavftAf2VIwOl84nzke+jP5HuIdxN3YJHt8Im7KzbXmmOkQ+M 6Hzy0IACZE2BcMzVm0uZgpOaABUZ7OeobAg2xJeAx45ElnrtHR50zIa4iSZotQPbhBg0sG iOzv42Uscnou1fBz9x7eNDHKobvEO4CUWlnLlNEKvB/iS9w4nVQe/IOeL5aUap5hDij4Q9 I3wSEBObMaTJchx5lqdlnO+1/CQsBxSu2IXoF8eIhsJkvoOMGZl45Xi5lU7LBhd48DWJzl RlUpuRapNA1r09bT70BPM4AnHtzsBysZ07NLH+GddKFpyw8uRakfdc0CQEtW9g== ARC-Message-Signature: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=freebsd.org; s=dkim; t=1733390058; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=YBRUNEMfdv3a+9fCTMmo20ndABcfPRf++oE10hMUjF4=; b=rv3V58S19vY74YgmiF37/CokaiAzADFWCRMQK5fILvdb40ZaGLlLtJQ2PmPVswMa/arBHc HUlPgF0wtI9iyvxFrJhOME2vp+VbgEhYBbCZeIV2b0Fg8qKMowtnF4ijdNr6S9VzI+T5ZC e6Rb0oqQtG3L4tq2uSeAvo1YJiuXbz+cphGwzZYsMSY+4b8/zPaQS9QYDC6QVloBhtP8+v qxXAMdqv4VVZpf35mhUWefamlOcDOxRzRR7yJfbHw2bjx1uU+dcgfrAyRKusu5u0xk79iq qJNO5dBCDGQPo6ei0PNyVfiiyNNZICIJnFI21CVDvXIu0EzSQYIA6eCoATQNBw== ARC-Authentication-Results: i=1; mx1.freebsd.org; none ARC-Seal: i=1; s=dkim; d=freebsd.org; t=1733390058; a=rsa-sha256; cv=none; b=F8a9PV9vMl3W0RzjvOwRj7gcQ+73Oa7JtykwOrnf1IvA8Rl7YuD/+V7B28guVsxxKcmDtu bYptusU7N4QXLf8dEwxWU+fMjR5PaFuesXQFTb1HeSQFcNg6qgwBUV5l+i3l86u/6CNG6s 3aHxsijqzTGwOHflsE9G46OrtDvv4VmvG0gtRWGleKBGCNW8HesMdhtMueuAcB13xSg2g3 vFixyNIccWwZCIduBAgywReYgAm5o4mG4w37jZSVcL9a2Q4038IhHDWvLVSlLmTDUVVjbB KrclaMJyj+QZ77WGhptV2Tnv0RVz2oiqjXGTROzT65sf7Ls6tIfXv4bKrdVdlQ== Received: from ltc.des.dev (88-177-82-251.subs.proxad.net [88.177.82.251]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (Client did not present a certificate) (Authenticated sender: des) by smtp.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4Y3pc95s7VzJ6P; Thu, 5 Dec 2024 09:14:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from des@freebsd.org) Received: by ltc.des.dev (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 8B16260023; Thu, 05 Dec 2024 10:14:16 +0100 (CET) From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= To: Dewayne Geraghty Cc: Paul Procacci , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Do we need both /nonexistent and /var/empty in /etc/passwd? In-Reply-To: <9c3177d2-9b98-4049-b775-0d969d604b89@heuristicsystems.com.au> (Dewayne Geraghty's message of "Thu, 5 Dec 2024 13:03:39 +1100") References: <41641e69-c7b4-4558-8d2c-e6f70906c893@heuristicsystems.com.au> <9c3177d2-9b98-4049-b775-0d969d604b89@heuristicsystems.com.au> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2024 10:14:16 +0100 Message-ID: <86h67icx07.fsf@ltc.des.dev> List-Id: User questions List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-questions List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dewayne Geraghty 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 --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@FreeBSD.org