Importing mksh in base

Baptiste Daroussin bapt at FreeBSD.org
Sat Jan 26 13:49:52 UTC 2019



Le 26 janvier 2019 12:43:37 GMT+01:00, Bob Bishop <rb at gid.co.uk> a écrit :
>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.
>
No one is proposing to bring in bash, mksh is clearly not as fancy as bash

Bapt


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