mildly sanitize network configuration files

diff --git a/conf_files/pl_validateconf b/conf_files/pl_validateconf
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+#!/bin/sh
+
+# Valid environment variables to appear in a planetlab config file
+TAGS='IP_METHOD HOST_NAME DOMAIN_NAME PROXY_SERVER
+      IP_ADDRESS IP_GATEWAY IP_NETMASK IP_NETADDR IP_BROADCASTADDR 
+      IP_DNS1 IP_DNS2 PRIMARY_DEV PRIMARY_MAC'
+
+# Valid characters that variable can be set to
+CHARS='[:alnum:]\.: _-'
+
+REGEX=''
+
+for t in $TAGS
+do
+    if [ "$REGEX" == "" ]
+    then
+        REGEX="^$t"
+    else
+        REGEX="$REGEX|^$t"
+    fi
+done
+/bin/egrep "($REGEX)\=\\\"[$CHARS]*\\\"\s*$"