On Wed, Jun 14, 2023 at 06:24:00PM +0200, Stefan Sperling wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 14, 2023 at 05:39:28PM +0300, Alexander Arkhipov wrote:
> > Sorry if that's been asked before: I've read the gotd(8), gotsh(1) and
> > got.conf(5) man pages, and searched through the list, but can't find the
> > information.
> > 
> > I have anonymous gotd set up on an OpenBSD box. The password entry looks
> > like this:
> > 
> > anon::1006:1006::0:0:Anon:/var/empty:/usr/local/bin/gotsh
> > 
> > However, I get daily messages to my mail like so:
> > 
> > > Running security(8):
> > > 
> > > Checking the /etc/master.passwd file:
> > > Login anon has no password.
> > 
> > I have also read security(8), and the script /usr/libexec/security
> > itself. It seems that an exception is only ever made for the user
> > anoncvs running anoncvssh.
> > 
> > 		nag $pwd eq '' && !($name eq 'anoncvs' &&
> > 				    $shell =~ /\/anoncvssh$/),
> > 		    "Login $name has no password.";
> > 
> > So, is there something special I need to do to get rid of these
> > messages? Do I just make an ad-hoc modification of the script and wait
> > for better times?
> 
> For now, either ignore the message or tweak the script. I don't know if
> a patch to security(8) to remove this message for gotsh(1) in a similar
> way would be accepted. Probably not at this stage.

I thought setting the password field to '*************' (13 stars) was
one way of silencing this warning. One of useradd or adduser does this
and the security script has a "length $pwd != 13" exemption for that
reason.