cloginrc and multiple matching directives

[Ed Ravin]

On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 04:31:06PM -0400, Hopper, Faron  W. wrote:
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> So, my last line, 206.245.31.* {pass2}, does this work in
> conjunction with the line add password  *  {pass}?  So everything
> that is NOT 206.245.31.* will get pass and everything with 206.245.31.*
> will get pass2?  Is there anything else that I should be aware of
> when defining these devices?  Like should I add all of my specific
> devices first and then add the wild card?  Or what about the pattern
> matching piece of the puzzle.  If I specify cg* and then have 2
> devices say, cgk01 and 01cg will it find both of those, or just
> the cgk01?

See "man cloginrc", in particular this part:

     As  .cloginrc  is  searched  for a directive matching a hostname, it is
     always the first matching instance of a directive, one  whose hostname
     glob  expression  matches  the  hostname,  which is used.  For example;
     looking up the "password" directive for hostname  foo  in  a .cloginrc
     file containing

               add password *   {bar} {table}
               add password foo {bar} {table}

     would  return the first line, even though the second is an exact match.