Re: Setting a default value with an alternative attribute

[Iain Morgan <Iain.Morgan [at] nasa.gov>]

Thanks for the patch. I tested it against 0.7.5 since that was the
vednor-provided version which I have been testing, and the patch worked
fine.

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Iain

On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 14:07:27 -0500, Arthur de Jong wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-10-16 at 16:20 -0700, Iain Morgan wrote:
> > I have a few client systems which require special handling of the
> > homeDirectory attribute. Most user accounts will actually share the
> > same home directory, but there will be a few exceptions to this rule.
> > 
> > I had planned to create a variant of the homeDirectory attribute to
> > handle the exceptoins, homeDirectory;foo, and let nslcd supply a
> > default value for the majority of the accounts.
> > 
> > I had hoped that something like this would work:
> > 
> >     map passwd homeDirectory "${homeDirectory;foo:-/home/something}"
> > 
> > but this results in blank values for the home directories.
> 
> The expressions currently don't support attribute options but the
> attached patch should fix that that. Can you test it?
> 
> > PS: Kudos on the clean design of nslcd. In particular, the syntax used
> > in the config file is much better than I have seen in other clients.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
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> -- arthur - arthur@arthurdejong.org - http://arthurdejong.org --

> Index: common/expr.c
> ===================================================================
> --- common/expr.c     (revision 1802)
> +++ common/expr.c     (working copy)
> @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
>    /* look for an alpha+alphanumeric* string */
>    if (!my_isalpha(str[*ptr]))
>      return NULL;
> -  while (my_isalphanum(str[*ptr]))
> +  while (my_isalphanum(str[*ptr])||(str[*ptr]==';'))
>    {
>      if ((size_t)i>=buflen)
>        return NULL;


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