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diff --git a/doc/server/plugins/generators/rules.txt b/doc/server/plugins/generators/rules.txt index e4f47c2bf..7aeec6990 100644 --- a/doc/server/plugins/generators/rules.txt +++ b/doc/server/plugins/generators/rules.txt @@ -512,3 +512,23 @@ you'd have to explicitly specify ``<Service name="bcfg2.*".../>``. Note that only one Rule can apply to any abstract entry, so you cannot specify multiple regexes to match the same rule. + +Replacing the name of the Entry in Attributes +============================================= + +If you are using regular expressions to match the abstract configuration +entries, you may need the concrete name of the entry in some attributes. +To use this feature, you have to enable it. It is only useful, if used +together with regex matching. :: + + [rules] + regex = yes + replace_name = yes + +You now can write something like that in your xml file: + +.. code-block:: xml + + <POSIXUser name='.*' home='/somewhere/%{name}'/> + +``%{name}`` will be correctly replaced with the username for each POSIXUser. |