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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!vbcnet-west!garlic.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!144.212.100.12!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Serious brain damage in /bin/sh for FreeBSD 2.1.5 Date: 29 Nov 1996 08:21:56 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 20 Message-ID: <57m6f4$2dl@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <stanbE1M2D2.38I@netcom.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E stanb@netcom.com (Stan Brown) wrote: > Now I have more problems. The scripts assume that *only* ksh will > source a file pointed to by the $ENV variable. Well geuss what the FreeBSD So these scripts are plain broken. They should not assume this. It's Posix-sanctioned to do it. Good news: the /bin/sh in -current (or the 2.2 release candidate) knows about ``sh -p'', which is what you're looking for. It disables sourcing $ENV. (Meaning it's a ``privileged'' shell since it's automatically turned on whenever the shell detects that its UID and EUID are different.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)