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Re: Comments in k5login file?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Raeburn)
Wed Sep 5 03:05:16 2007
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From: Ken Raeburn <raeburn@mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 03:04:58 -0400
To: "Booker C. Bense" <bbense@stanford.edu>
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On Aug 28, 2007, at 20:56, Booker C. Bense wrote:
> This cam up in a recent discussion. I can dig in the code, but I
> can't dig in all the code. So is there a safe way to put comments in
> a .k5login file?
There isn't a comment syntax, per se, in the MIT code, but the lines
of the file are just taken as plain strings to compare against a
formatted principal name. So if, for example, you don't have any
principals in your database starting with "#" ... :)
You could also pick a syntax that's never going to be generated for a
valid principal name even if other realm gives its principals weird
names. For example, starting lines with "@@", since "@" in a
principal name component or in the realm name would be formatted as
"\@", so there should only ever be one unquoted "@" in the string
being looked for in the file.
Ken
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