Re: sysrc bug
Miklós Quartus via freebsd-security <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.freebsd.security.general |
|---|---|
| Organization | Foresthacker |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On 6/1/21 5:54 AM, Gordon Tetlow via freebsd-security wrote: > Surprised this old myth is still being repeated. Having used various >> root shells in FreeBSD and other Unux/Linux systems for decades I have to >> ask specifically what said reasons are, particularly considering >> /usr/sbin/sysrc starts with "#!/bin/sh" (as does and should every system >> shell script). > It’s likely due to the quoting behavior of newlines passed as the argument when he ran the script, which varies between shell implementations. As I said, I’m not surprised something broke because many utilities are not tested with different shell behaviors. > > I also believe if we have a reproducible test case, we should go ahead and fix it. > > Gordon I have Bash shell in my root terminal (did not change the default shell, just type 'bash -l' from the default csh) and I could not reproduce this error on 13.0-RELEASE . The rc.conf remains fine showing just the expected changes. -- Regards, Miklós GPG fingerprint: 3C4B 1364 A379 7366 7FED 260A 2208 F2CE 3FCE A0D3 _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"