[Bug 108] Enable continuation with '\' (backslash) in /etc/ssh/sshd_config (feature request)

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------- Additional Comments From dan at doxpara.com  2002-04-17 13:38 -------
Hmmm, I've created a few ProxyCommand pipes that wouldn't fit into 80 
characters, and it wouldn't really make sense to have multiple ProxyCommand 
options. (are they piped together?  &&'d?  should I need to create a file and 
sh -c it?)

\ as a line extension mechanism has a decent amount of precedent -- I think 
it's been around since bourne shell -- and might make some configuration files
easier to read.  The main cost I see is that, as far as I know, there's not a 
mode to make grep aware of the backslash.  That would mean

$ grep AllowUsers /etc/sshd/sshd_config

would return only the first line of users allowed.

So:  Is it better to have something more usable and more standard for users to 
enter configurations into, or is it better to be compatible with per-line 
parsing systems?

I'm not really sure.  We've already sacrificed line independence -- a group of 
options can be encapsulated by a pattern match; the above grep would match all 
patterns equally.  Damien -- what's your reasoning for disliking \ notation, 
out of curiosity?

--Dan




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