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Date:      Tue, 1 Jun 2021 23:22:32 +0200
From:      =?UTF-8?Q?Mikl=c3=b3s_Quartus?= <qmi@foresthacker.hu>
To:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: sysrc bug
Message-ID:  <242de1fa-ccd5-c9d6-4b2e-330ac9dcc152@foresthacker.hu>
In-Reply-To: <E8315698-19C7-46FB-AD46-CD61057FECD7@tetlows.org>
References:  <s2s2o821-3n23-6811-2020-s172porqps6n@mx.roble.com> <E8315698-19C7-46FB-AD46-CD61057FECD7@tetlows.org>

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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.

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Regards,
Miklós
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