Re: Passwordless accounts vi ports!

From: Mathieu Arnold <mat_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2016 11:26:58 +0200
+--On 11 août 2016 07:05:05 +0200 "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.

Mmmm, I rewrote the user/group creation thingie a few months back, a bug
may have crept in, I'll have a look at it today.

-- 
Mathieu Arnold
Received on Thu Aug 11 2016 - 07:27:01 UTC

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