From b1efd4e749e7480cbf08a2a53c55545fee5aa7cb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rich Whitcroft <rwhitcroft@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2016 00:26:18 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] fix VAR=VAL loading from config

---
 lib/rex/parser/ini.rb | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/rex/parser/ini.rb b/lib/rex/parser/ini.rb
index 8dffe5ac1b..8d7f8f1bc4 100644
--- a/lib/rex/parser/ini.rb
+++ b/lib/rex/parser/ini.rb
@@ -165,7 +165,12 @@ protected
       # Is it a VAR=VAL?
       elsif (md = line.match(/^(.+?)=(.*)$/))
         if (active_group)
-          self[active_group][md[1]] = md[2]
+          var, val = md[1], md[2]
+
+          # don't clobber datastore nils with ""
+          unless val.empty?
+            self[active_group][var] = val
+          end
         end
       end
     }