Wildcards for allowed_hosts in nsca.cfg

[Andreas Ericsson]

François Laupretre wrote:
>>Is there a way to use wildcard for allowed_hosts in nsca.cfg? 
>>If there was a way to simply allow access from *every* host, 
>>I would be happy.
> 
> 
> No, it is not supported.
> 
> Here is an ugly patch to authorize it : In nsca.c, add the following line at
> the beginning of the is_an_allowed_host() function :
> 
> if ((allowed_hosts[0]=='*')&&(allowed_hosts[0]=='\0')) return 1;
> 

Replace '&&' with '||' or the expression will always evaluate to false 
(actually, the compiler will recognize it as dead code and remove it 
completely).

> Then, you can use '*' to authorize access from everywhere.
> 
> Hope this helps, although not very nice :)
> 
> François
> 
> 
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Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
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