Escaping characters in conext

[Karl Latiss]

I'm just beginning with salt so I wouldn't be suprised if this is painfully obvious however I can't find the solution and would appreciate some direction.

I'm using a context value to populate a templated sshd_config file however the context value contains within it the sequence \n

    - context:

      sshd_config_allowgroups: "agroup DOMAIN\newgroup anothergroup"

I've tried escaping the \n sequence with a ' (eg '\n) as well as with a \ (eg \\n) and have tried a number of jinja filters (escape, safe, string) with no luck. In all cases that don't error out I see the following:

-AllowGroups agroup DOMAIN\newgroup anothergroup

+AllowGroups agroup DOMAIN

+ewgroup anothergroup

Any pointers gladly accepted.

Karl.

[Jack Kuan]

hmm, doubling the backslash  works for me:

/Users/jkuan/hoho.txt:

  file:

    - managed

    - source: salt://hoho.txt

    - template: jinja

    - context:

      myvalue: "this is a\\ntest"

hoho.txt is:

{{myvalue}}

Then after state.highstate, I got /Users/jkuan/hoho.txt:

this is a \ntest

Jack

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[Mrten]

I use (in pillar, for ssh-keys):

sshkey: |
lorem ipsum
dolor sit amet

(pipe character)

Works as long as the indenting is there.

https://salt.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ref/states/all/salt.states.file.html?highlight=salt.states.file

under 'salt.states.file.append' is another example.

M.

[Karl Latiss]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 1:34 AM, Jack Kuan <jack...@thescore.com> wrote:

hmm, doubling the backslash  works for me:

/Users/jkuan/hoho.txt:

  file:

    - managed

    - source: salt://hoho.txt

    - template: jinja

    - context:

      myvalue: "this is a\\ntest"

hoho.txt is:

{{myvalue}}

Then after state.highstate, I got /Users/jkuan/hoho.txt:

this is a \ntest

OK - looks like the double backslash works and I'm changing too many things at once between tests.

Thanks for the quick response and apologies for the noise.

Karl.

 

Jack

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On Monday, 25 February, 2013 at 6:12 AM, Karl Latiss wrote:

I'm just beginning with salt so I wouldn't be suprised if this is painfully obvious however I can't find the solution and would appreciate some direction.

I'm using a context value to populate a templated sshd_config file however the context value contains within it the sequence \n

    - context:

      sshd_config_allowgroups: "agroup DOMAIN\newgroup anothergroup"

I've tried escaping the \n sequence with a ' (eg '\n) as well as with a \ (eg \\n) and have tried a number of jinja filters (escape, safe, string) with no luck. In all cases that don't error out I see the following:

-AllowGroups agroup DOMAIN\newgroup anothergroup

+AllowGroups agroup DOMAIN

+ewgroup anothergroup

Any pointers gladly accepted.

Karl.

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