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 ???
/nonexistent is not supposed to exist.
Perhaps you added the dnslog user using adduser(8) and so the home directory was created?
Andrew
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