Re: Passwordless accounts vi ports!

From: Ngie Cooper <yaneurabeya_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2016 22:16:46 -0700
> On Aug 10, 2016, at 22:05, O. Hartmann <ohartman_at_zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> 
> I just checked the security scanning outputs of FreeBSD and found this
> surprising result:
> 
> [...]
> Checking for passwordless accounts:
> polkitd::565:565::0:0:Polkit Daemon User:/var/empty:/usr/sbin/nologin
> pulse::563:563::0:0:PulseAudio System User:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin
> saned::194:194::0:0:SANE Scanner Daemon:/nonexistent:/bin/sh
> clamav::106:106::0:0:Clamav Antivirus:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin
> bacula::910:910::0:0:Bacula Daemon:/var/db/bacula:/usr/sbin/nologin
> [...]
> 
> Obviously, some ports install accounts but do not secure them as there is an
> empty password.
> 
> I consider this not a feature, but a bug.

saned is the only one that might concern me because the login shell isn't nologin(1).

Cheers,
-Ngie
Received on Thu Aug 11 2016 - 03:16:49 UTC

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