Bug#618885: sasl2-bin: unowned files after purge (policy 6.8, 10.8)

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Sat, 30 Apr 2011, Russ Allbery wrote:
> 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.

It has the same semanthics as /etc/shadow.

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  Henrique Holschuh