[Melbourne-pm] Parsing Sudoers Grammar
Gerd Berner
gberner at intraspect.com.au
Thu Apr 30 04:25:15 PDT 2009
Hello All
I have been looking at a grammar parsing problem for a while now and I
am interested to get some feedback on the direction that I am heading.
I need to be able to parse a Unix Sudoers file. I have found a number
of scripts on the web that do part of the job, but nothing that does
the full grammar. The Sudoers grammar is specified in EBNF form in the
manual http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/man/sudoers.html. I consulted CPAN and
have been playing with a number of modules:
My first tinkering was with Parse::EBNF which I used that to
successfully parse the grammar, before realising there are no methods
in the module to parse my rules.
I moved on to Parse::Stallion::EBNF appears to have all the required
methods and I am currently trying to get my head around converting the
Sudoers grammar into the rule format for Stallion.
Any advice or pointers to an existing work done in this area would be
much appreciated.
Kind Regards
Gerd
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