Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 18 September 2002 08:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >>Is it possible to add some comments in the .amandahosts file ? For >>example: >> >># this is my comment bla bla bla bla >>192.168.200.200 amandauser >> > > Good Q Marc, all I can say is I don't have any in mine. You can add > a line, and run amcheck to see if it complains I suppose. >
I just read through the source code (common-src/security.c, line 426 etc) , and it seems that the first two fields, separated by whitespace are always interpreted as hostname and username. The rest of the line is ignored. The file is read sequentially, until a match (simple strcasecmp) is found, or until eof. Empty lines and very long lines are handled fine (no buffer overflows). So I suppose you could say: # # this is my comment bla bla bla # # some more comments # # Just make sure the first two fields are not existent 192.168.200.200 amandauser # this part is ignored too And never have some host named '#' (I believe that would be very difficult to achieve?) Bordercase: the second field is always the username, so next line allows only the user named '#' to access the amandaserver, probably not what you intended. 192.168.200.201 # WRONG! only the user named '#' is allowed! 192.168.200.201 # # even double hashes is wrong. Well you could just as well have the comments in a file named README in the amanda home directory. That makes it safer when the source changes. -- Paul Bijnens, Xplanation Tel +32 16 40.51.40 Interleuvenlaan 15 H, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUM Fax +32 16 40.49.61 http://www.xplanation.com/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *********************************************************************** * I think I've got the hang of it now: exit, ^D, ^C, ^\, ^Z, ^Q, F6, * * quit, ZZ, :q, :q!, M-Z, ^X^C, logoff, logout, close, bye, /bye, * * stop, end, F3, ~., ^]c, +++ ATH, disconnect, halt, abort, hangup, * * PF4, F20, ^X^X, :D::D, KJOB, F14-f-e, F8-e, kill -1 $$, shutdown, * * kill -9 1, Alt-F4, Ctrl-Alt-Del, AltGr-NumLock, Stop-A, ... * * ... "Are you sure?" ... YES ... Phew ... I'm out * ***********************************************************************
