Andrew Findlay wrote: > On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 08:58:33AM +0000, hyc(a)symas.com wrote: > >> Possibly we can extend the directive to handle exclusion as well as inclusion, >> to simplify this case. > Extending this idea slightly, would it be possible to have > exclusions based on changes to specific attributes? The > particular case I have in mind is where accesslog is used to > keep a permanent audit log of changes, and ppolicy is also > in use, resulting in one audit entry for every login > failure. I have one site where a large proportion of the auditlog > entries are login failures... Perhaps in that case, it would be simpler just to set ppolicy's mods to be internal-only and bypass the accesslog overlay. (Currently it does this already, if the server is a single-master replica.) So far you're talking about two different enhancements - the original poster is trying to exclude a set of searches, and you're talking about excluding modify ops. I'm not seeing any way yet to generalize from here such that all operation types are addressed meaningfully, and I don't want to introduce multiple special cases to the config language.