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Re: Censoring configuration files
From: |
Geert Stappers |
Subject: |
Re: Censoring configuration files |
Date: |
Wed, 23 Jan 2002 01:42:16 +0100 |
At 15:48 +0100 1/22/02, Ronan KERYELL wrote:
>A meta-problem about using tools such as cfengine, FAI, JumpStart,... :
>many people
>ask me my configuration files but they contain of course many passwords, PPP
>accounts, etc. :-(
>
>So I'm looking for a good way to automate the publication of my config
>file AND censoring sensitive information...
>
>Any idea for an elegant way ?
>
>To add some mark-up in config files ? But not always safe for the
>application ?
>
>To add an abstract description of each file describing what to overide ?
>
>< Insert your good idea here :-) >
>
make a copy of the config dir in a publish directory
censor the publish directory
make a diff
MARKER:continue your work in the config dir
make a copy of the config dir in a publish directory
apply the diff ( patch )
goto MARKER
>Thank you,
It is just a Q&D idea
Geert