From: Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2026 16:21:38 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: readhash: Fix the quote check
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=378d863d0b458883ea3bd9ee56d425c70bd965f0;p=ipfire-2.x.git

readhash: Fix the quote check

The single quotes changed bash's behaviour to interpret the * character
literally, but this is not what we wanted here. We need to escape the
single quotes.

Signed-off-by: Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>
Reviewed-by: Bernhard Bitsch <bbitsch@ipfire.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>
---

diff --git a/src/initscripts/system/functions b/src/initscripts/system/functions
index c4b7cb39e..757912eab 100644
--- a/src/initscripts/system/functions
+++ b/src/initscripts/system/functions
@@ -930,7 +930,7 @@ readhash() {
 
 		# strip leading and trailing single quotes
 		case "${val}" in
-			'*')
+			\'*\')
 				val="${val#\'}"
 				val="${val%\'}"
 				;;