[Freeipmi-devel] [bug #53193] ipmi-config compatibility scripts mangle parameters through shell

[anonymous]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?53193>

                 Summary: ipmi-config compatibility scripts  mangle parameters
through shell
                 Project: GNU FreeIPMI
            Submitted by: None
            Submitted on: Tue 20 Feb 2018 04:34:08 PM UTC
                Category: bmc-config
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Improper Behaviour
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
        Operating System: GNU/Linux

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Details:

bmc-config and the other compatibility scripts seem to let the shell mangle
their parameters before passing them to ipmi-config.


address@hidden:~# ls
bmc-core.conf
address@hidden:~# bmc-config -g '*' -o
invalid category 'bmc-core.conf' specified


(yeah, I was attempting to make a backup of all setting from all
categories...)

This is because of the rather convoluted way that bmc-config patches the
--category=core option into the command line.  A much simpler bmc-config.in
not suffering from the same problem would be:


#!/bin/sh
exec @CONFIGSBINDIR@/ipmi-config --category=core "$@"






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