Importing mksh in base

Bob Bishop rb at gid.co.uk
Sat Jan 26 11:49:23 UTC 2019


Hi,

> On 25 Jan 2019, at 23:49, Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd at quip.cz> wrote:
> 
> 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),
> 
> Yes please, keep tcsh in base.
> After almost 20 years on FreeBSD with tcsh I don't understand how somebody can user bash as root shell.

+1 

And let’s not forget that bash brought us CVE-2014-6271 (ShellShock). There may be other vulnerabilities lurking among the fancy gadgets.

> Kind regards
> Miroslav Lachman

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Bob Bishop
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