[augeas-devel] FreeBSD /etc/rc.conf

[Mathieu Arnold]

+--On 18 novembre 2010 12:29:25 +0000 "Richard W.M. Jones"
<rjones at redhat.com> wrote:
| Question is, who is responsible for stopping that from happening?  I
| think the answer should involve Augeas, either doing the escaping, or
| providing hints to upper layers so we know what to escape.

I don't think Augeas should too to much things, I see it as a very nice and
consistent way to access files, but in the end, it's me (as in the one
using Augeas) who knows what should go in those files thus sanitizing the
user input so that it does not unleash hell.

For instance, a hostname coming from a user will always have to match
/^[a-z0-9](?:[a-z0-9-]{0,61}[a-z0-9])?(?:\.[a-z0-9](?:[a-z0-9-]{0,61}[a-z0-9])?)$/i
because it's what a hostname should look like at the end of the day.

But I might (for some strange reason I can't fathom yet) want to do
something like :
hostname="`ifconfig | awk '/ether/ {gsub(\":\", \"\", $2); print $2;
exit}'`.absolight.net"

And I would really like to be able to do the second with Augeas :-)

-- 
Mathieu Arnold