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# 8  
Old 08-06-2008
I'm not sure I understand. Do you mean skip down to "access to attr=userPassword" and then add the line like before, after any occurrence of "by users read"?

Code:
sed -e '1,/^access to attr=userPassword/b' \
    -e '/by users read/a\''by peername.ip=127.0.0.1 read' slapd_config

I assumed "access to" is at beginning of line; taking out the ^ if that is not so should not hurt at all, though.
# 9  
Old 08-06-2008
I am really sorry for all the confusion. Following is the part of file and I want to add a line "by peername.ip=127.0.0.1 read
" where I have made the text bold.But I want to avoid the text mareked in Red.

Code:
# access to *
#       by self write
#       by users read
#       by anonymous auth
#
# if no access controls are present, the default policy is:
#       Allow read by all
#
# rootdn can always write!
######################################################################
#leave at default of 500
#sizelimit 200 
# acl ################################################################
#defaultaccess search
access to attr=userPassword
 by self write
 by * auth
access to *
 by self write
 by users read
 by anonymous auth

# 10  
Old 08-06-2008
Just change the search string to include matching the beginning of the line:

Code:
sed -i -e '/^ by users read/a\
        by peername.ip=127.0.0.1 read' slapd_config

# 11  
Old 08-06-2008
Hey!
Thanks a lot! This works perfectly fine except that it puts some spaces in the file.Any idea how to overcome this.

Code:
access to *
 by self write
 by users read
        by peername.ip=127.0.0.1 read
 by anonymous auth

# 12  
Old 08-06-2008
Hi,

Check this

sed -i -e '/^ by users read/a\ by peername.ip=127.0.0.1 read' slapd_config
# 13  
Old 08-06-2008
As such, the solution I posted appears to also work. It just passes through anything up through the l"access to attr=userPassword" line and then performs the addition of "by peername etc" after any match on "by users read".
# 14  
Old 08-06-2008
Thanks thangaraju, era and Annihilannic! Your soln works like a charm!
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