This post documents my attempt to reproduce the problem outlined in FreeBSD – /etc/pam.d/sshd was updated/overwritten – no merge attempt I have a working test jail: testingmerge Snapshot of 15.0 [12:11 r730-03 dvl /usr/local/share] % zfs list | grep testingmerge data01/jails/testingmerge 374M 7.62T 374M /jails/testingmerge [12:16 r730-03 dvl /usr/local/share] % sudo zfs snapshot data01/jails/testingmerge@clean-15.0 [12:16 r730-03 dvl /usr/local/share] % The jail configuration is simple: Not shown Get the jail started. I also did, […]

I was wondering why hare did not seem to be working anymore. I tracked it down to a missing line in /etc/pam.d/sshd. The file is there in this snapshot: [12:24 r730-01 dvl /jails/serpico/.zfs/snapshot] % diff -ruN autosnap_2026-08-04_00:00:18_daily/etc/pam.d/sshd /jails/serpico/etc/pam.d/sshd — autosnap_2026-08-04_00:00:18_daily/etc/pam.d/sshd 2023-12-03 16:38:51.359135000 +0000 +++ /jails/serpico/etc/pam.d/sshd 2026-06-12 09:42:15.000000000 +0000 @@ -21,4 +21,3 @@ # password #password sufficient pam_krb5.so no_warn try_first_pass password required pam_unix.so no_warn try_first_pass -session optional pam_exec.so /usr/local/sbin/hare 10.55.0.10 [12:25 r730-01 dvl /jails/serpico/.zfs/snapshot]

NOTE: I suspect some configuration file changes happened silently. See FreeBSD – /etc/pam.d/sshd was updated/overwritten – no merge attempt On Friday, I finished upgrading all my FreeBSD hosts from FreeBSD 15 to FreeBSD 15.1 (the first host I did is in this blog post ). Before that, I had run pkgbasify on each of those hosts. I also ran pkgbasify in a jail, but I learned that I can run it from the

If, after moving to pkgbase (for me, that was via pkgbasify), you discover you can’t find the package in question, you might, like me, run this command: % pkg repos -e [18:25 r720-02 dvl ~] % pkg repos -e local: { url : “https://fedex.example.org/packages/FreeBSD:15:amd64/”, enabled : yes, priority : 0, signature_type : “PUBKEY”, pubkey : “/etc/ssl/slocum.unixathome.org.cert” } Not to worry, that’s my local repo. What’s missing there is pkgbase. When I compare this

In this post: FreeBSD 15.0 If you’re running pkgbasify, and you hit this message: [15:02 zuul dvl ~/tmp] % fetch https://github.com/FreeBSDFoundation/pkgbasify/raw/refs/heads/main/pkgbasify.lua fetch: https://github.com/FreeBSDFoundation/pkgbasify/raw/refs/heads/main/pkgbasify.lua: Authentication error … my “fix” was: [15:04 zuul dvl ~/tmp] % fetch –no-verify-peer https://github.com/FreeBSDFoundation/pkgbasify/raw/refs/heads/main/pkgbasify.lua fetch: https://github.com/FreeBSDFoundation/pkgbasify/raw/refs/heads/main/pkgbasify.lua: Authentication error [15:04 zuul dvl ~/tmp] % fetch –no-verify-peer https://github.com/FreeBSDFoundation/pkgbasify/raw/refs/heads/main/pkgbasify.lua fetch: https://github.com/FreeBSDFoundation/pkgbasify/raw/refs/heads/main/pkgbasify.lua: Authentication error [15:04 zuul dvl ~/tmp] % fetch –no-verify-peer https://github.com/FreeBSDFoundation/pkgbasify/raw/refs/heads/main/pkgbasify.lua pkgbasify.lua 21 kB 25 MBps 00s [15:04 zuul dvl ~/tmp] % As