> could it be that the equals sign (=) you typed in /lib/ndb/auth is not > the normal equals sign (ascii 3d) but the equal sign of another > encoding? that could be the reason why your /lib/ndb/auth can't be > pasted properly in an email and can't be parsed correctly by > tokenize().
easy test.
ndb/query -f /lib/ndb/auth hostid bootes
should ->
hostid=bootes uid=!sys uid=!adm uid=*
- erik
