[JIRA] Commented: (SSPCPP-501) Make metagen ingest a list of hostnames from a file

[Peter Schober (JIRA)]

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Peter Schober commented on SSPCPP-501:
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Oh, I don't care much for non-ssl vhosts so I didn't duplicate the new option to also work for "nakedhosts". But easy enough to do, given the latin alphabet has some letters left not yet in use ;)

> Make metagen ingest a list of hostnames from a file
> ---------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: SSPCPP-501
>                 URL: https://issues.shibboleth.net/jira/browse/SSPCPP-501
>             Project: Shibboleth SP - C++
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Configuration
>            Reporter: Peter Schober
>            Assignee: Scott Cantor
>            Priority: Trivial
>         Attachments: metagen.patch
>
>
> Inspired by the recent "SP Logout" thread:
> http://shibboleth.1660669.n2.nabble.com/SP-Logout-td7581710.html#a7581775
> Attached is a patch extending metagen.sh to accept a list (-l) of hostnames from a file (assuming 1 hostname per line). The content of that file is treated as if each hostname had been specified with -h.
> (N.B.: Removing the included error checking whether the file $HOSTLIST exists makes this even more flexibel as the list of hosts could then be read from STDIN.)
> For deployments with many vhosts this spares the use of writing a wrapper around metagen.sh.
> Also -- but not part of the supplied patch; this didn't warrant a seperate issue, IMO -- metagen.sh references /bin/sh but I think will only work with something rather bash-like. At least on Debian or Ubuntu or FreeBSD (none of which are supported platforms) /bin/sh is some form of the Almquist shell and running it there will fail there because of its use of arrays.
> So probably the first line should be changed as well, to be on the safe side.
> {noformat}
> -#!/bin/sh
> +#!/usr/bin/env bash
> {noformat}
> I note that in the Debian package the shebang has already been changed to /bin/bash as well.

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