> On May 31, 2021, at 16:07, Roger Marquis <marq...@roble.com> wrote: > > >> >> Also, changing the root shell is bad for many reasons and I'm not >> surprised that something doesn't work. > > 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 _______________________________________________ freebsd-security@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-security-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
