Re: linux-ipsec: multiple auto connections

> > I think the right way to bulletproof it is to do some sort of flashy
> > utility to edit it, rather than trying to anticipate every stupidity that
> > hand-editing might introduce. Someday...
>
> I think needing a special editor for ascii files defeats the purpose of

No, not at all. The purpose of having a (documented!) ASCII configuration file is so that people with special needs can "roll their own". That in no way precludes having novice-friendly interfaces which make it easier for people *without* special needs to get the simple cases right. The guys with the special requirements can be assumed to be knowledgeable enough, given basic docs, that they don't make trivial syntax errors (or that if they do, they can figure the problem out themselves).

                                                          Henry Spencer
                                                       henry@spsystems.net
                                                     (henry@zoo.toronto.edu)