openssh unix dev - Sep 2012 - RFE: EndMatch

Hi,

Currently a Match block can only be ended by another Match block or an
end of file.

I'd like to suggest adding the keyword "EndMatch" to mark the end
of a
Match block.

This would make tools which modify configuration files not have to worry
about the location of a variable being before a Match line.
This would also make for much cleaner descriptions of configuration used
by tools, such as Augeas called by Puppet.

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On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 04:56:19PM +0200, Biltong wrote:
> Currently a Match block can only be ended by another Match block or an
> end of file.
> 
> I'd like to suggest adding the keyword "EndMatch" to mark the
end of a
> Match block.
Rather than adding a new keyword, it would probably be doable by
extending Match to understand "Match all", which should have the
semantics you want.  You could end up with some configs that were pretty
hard to understand, though.

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