Update var in ini file using bash

Question

I am attempting to write a bash script to configure various aspects of a server. The context here is replacing a value of a variable in a conf file (ini format) with another

Answer 1

awk '/^[ssh-iptables/ {ok=1}
     ok==1 && $0="enabled = false" {print "  enabled = true"; ok=0 ; next}
     {print $0} ' infile > tmp
     mv tmp infile