William Bulley wrote:
This it true: the ntlm_auth line is expanded at run time. My question in this thread is for the consideration of more throrough _syntax_ checking - without expansion - during the -XC process.
How does the server now that some random module will expand some random string in the configuration file? FYI, it's possible to have "%{...}" in a string which *isn't* dynamically expanded.
Proper _syntax_ checking would have caught this gnarly typo. Discovering the actual problem was made more difficult by admins assuming that -XC was more than the above described superficial configuration test. Thank you for your repsonses.
The only way to test run-time expansions is by running packets through the server. If you have a *patch* which helps, great. Until then... Alan DeKok.