conf/163432: Environment variables set from /etc/login.conf do not have surrounding quote characters removed

Mike Clarke jmc-fbsdpr at milibyte.co.uk
Sun Dec 18 21:10:12 UTC 2011


The following reply was made to PR conf/163432; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Mike Clarke <jmc-fbsdpr at milibyte.co.uk>
To: Jaakko Heinonen <jh at freebsd.org>
Cc: bug-followup at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: conf/163432: Environment variables set from /etc/login.conf do not have surrounding quote characters removed
Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2011 20:52:27 +0000

 On Sunday 18 December 2011, Jaakko Heinonen wrote:
 
 > Can you clarify the "earlier versions"?
 
 On 8.1-RELEASE the quotes get stripped off.
 
 curlew:/home/mike% grep setenv /etc/login.conf
         :setenv=MAIL=/var/mail/$,BLOCKSIZE=K,FTP_PASSIVE_MODE=YES,EDITOR=vi,EXINIT="set 
 ai ic sw=3",PAGER=less,EJECT=/dev/acd0:\
 
 
 curlew:/home/mike% env | grep EXINIT
 EXINIT=set ai ic sw=3
 
 -- 
 Mike Clarke


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