users file and "!*" comparisons

[Arran Cudbard-Bell]

Daniel Larsson wrote:
> I've encountered an unintuitive behaviour in the users file processing .
> I wanted to do something similar to:
>
> DEFAULT Some-Attr !* "", Other-Attr !* ""
>         ...
>
> I.e. if neither "Some-Attr" nor "Other-Attr" is present, it should
> match.
>   
> However, this doesn't work, as paircmp in valuepair.c immediately
> returns the result as soon as an operator "!*" is found in the check
> list. No other check items in the user entry is checked. This seems to
> apply to both 1.1 and 2.0 branches.
>
> Before I try to patch this, is this intended for some reason?
>   

In the users file, the top line conditions are evaluated in sequence 
until one evaluates to false.
It doesn't matter which operators you use.

I actually find it quite helpful, and *more* intuitive that way, also 
saves on processing for a line which could never match ...

Really if you want to be doing anything complicated with conditions I 
would try the CVS head and look at 'man unlang'.

-- 
Arran Cudbard-Bell (A.Cudbard-Bell at sussex.ac.uk)
Authentication, Authorisation and Accounting Officer
Infrastructure Services | ENG1 E1-1-08 
University Of Sussex, Brighton
EXT:01273 873900 | INT: 3900