diff --git a/Changes b/Changes
index 8692897c3..7bb9c2d88 100644
--- a/Changes
+++ b/Changes
@@ -1163,3 +1163,5 @@
   Reported and patch provided by Xuefer (#0002891).
 - Made it so me::numeric can be changed (when not linked to any servers) so no server restart
   is needed anymore (#0002896).
+- set::ssl::egd does not require a parameter per-se (bug caused few days ago), reported
+  by Trocotronic (#0002899).
diff --git a/src/s_conf.c b/src/s_conf.c
index 54a803ac5..6e5fac668 100644
--- a/src/s_conf.c
+++ b/src/s_conf.c
@@ -7809,7 +7809,6 @@ int	_test_set(ConfigFile *conf, ConfigEntry *ce)
 #ifdef USE_SSL
 			for (cepp = cep->ce_entries; cepp; cepp = cepp->ce_next) {
 				if (!strcmp(cepp->ce_varname, "egd")) {
-					CheckNull(cepp);
 					CheckDuplicate(cep, ssl_egd, "ssl::egd");
 				}
 				else if (!strcmp(cepp->ce_varname, "certificate"))