Bug#618885: sasl2-bin: unowned files after purge (policy 6.8, 10.8)
Russ Allbery
rra at debian.org
Sun May 1 04:08:22 UTC 2011
Steve Langasek <vorlon at debian.org> writes:
> I don't think that /etc/shadow qualifies as a "configuration file",
> either; I would call it "variable state information" (→ /var/lib), but
> it lives in /etc because a) it has to be on the root filesystem, b)
> that's where it's always been so moving it somewhere else would be more
> trouble than it's worth.
> For other packages like sasl (or, say, samba, which stores all its
> authentication databases in /var/lib/samba in Debian), neither of these
> arguments holds AFAICS.
Actually, now that I look at the sasldb2 file, I think you're right. I
was under the mistaken impression that it was a file that administrators
were expected to edit with a text editor, but it's actually a binary file
format that's manipulated only via utilities. You're right; this probably
doesn't belong in /etc at all and should instead be somewhere in /var.
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Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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