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Date:      Sat, 26 Jan 2019 14:49:47 +0100
From:      Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk>,Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz>
Cc:        Jamie Landeg-Jones <jamie@catflap.org>, grembo@freebsd.org, dteske@freebsd.org, arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Importing mksh in base
Message-ID:  <9A54D267-DE69-4C88-857D-9C523C853EDA@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <612ABF23-B940-4692-B977-2DF7CD34BC5C@gid.co.uk>
References:  <20190125165751.kpcjjncmf7j7maxd@ivaldir.net> <BB2CCC27-9277-4300-BF59-B5C62641A7B1@freebsd.org> <69E462A0-B9E9-4D26-898F-A96036227E65@FreeBSD.org> <201901251727.x0PHRniq094803@donotpassgo.dyslexicfish.net> <862c514f-7c19-ce6c-4438-1e765524cee2@quip.cz> <612ABF23-B940-4692-B977-2DF7CD34BC5C@gid.co.uk>

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Le 26 janvier 2019 12:43:37 GMT+01:00, Bob Bishop <rb@gid=2Eco=2Euk> a =C3=
=A9crit :
>Hi,
>
>> On 25 Jan 2019, at 23:49, Miroslav Lachman <000=2Efbsd@quip=2Ecz> wrote=
:
>>=20
>> Jamie Landeg-Jones wrote on 2019/01/25 18:27:
>>> Heavy tcsh user here - strictly for interactive use (I use bourne
>shell for
>>> shell scripting)
>>> Still, as long as it continues in base (and I'd be first to
>volunteer
>>> to maintain that if needed - it already contains a few patches of
>mine),
>>=20
>> Yes please, keep tcsh in base=2E
>> After almost 20 years on FreeBSD with tcsh I don't understand how
>somebody can user bash as root shell=2E
>
>+1=20
>
>And let=E2=80=99s not forget that bash brought us CVE-2014-6271 (ShellSho=
ck)=2E
>There may be other vulnerabilities lurking among the fancy gadgets=2E
>
No one is proposing to bring in bash, mksh is clearly not as fancy as bash

Bapt



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