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From: Mike Clarke <jmc-fbsdpr@milibyte.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: conf/163432: Environment variables set from /etc/login.conf do
	not have surrounding quote characters removed
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The following reply was made to PR conf/163432; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Mike Clarke <jmc-fbsdpr@milibyte.co.uk>
To: Jaakko Heinonen <jh@freebsd.org>
Cc: bug-followup@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: conf/163432: Environment variables set from /etc/login.conf do not have surrounding quote characters removed
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 14:13:19 +0000

 On Monday 19 December 2011, you wrote:
 
 > I still get EXINIT="set ai ic sw=3" on 8.1-RELEASE. Are you sure that
 > your database is up to date (i.e. you have run cap_mkdb
 > /etc/login.conf)?
 
 Yes, it's up to date but I've just discovered a long forgotten line 
 in .cshrc which was also setting EXINIT and overriding the value from 
 login.conf. After removing the .cshrc line I now get the quotes the 
 same way as you do. The issue only became visible on the new 9.0 system 
 I was setting up because the new user account didn't have a copy of the 
 old .cshrc file.
 
 I've now removed the qoutes from login.conf since I now see that they 
 should not have been there. I'm sorry for any inconvenience caused by 
 my oversight.
 
 This does leave the minor point that the absence of a quoting facility 
 means that it doesn't seem possible to include a comma in the value of 
 an environment variable defined in login.conf, though I doubt if many 
 users will ever need to do this.
 
 -- 
 Mike Clarke