[Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#649176: /usr/sbin/slappasswd: move slappasswd out of /usr/sbin and out of slapd package

[Steve Langasek]

On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 09:21:47AM +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> > > Another thing is why is it installed in /usr/sbin? As far as I can tell,
> > > it only *generates* the salted, hashed password and print it to stdout.
> > > Nothing really needs root permissions, so I'm not sure why it couldn't
> > > live in /usr/bin.

> > Yes, that makes sense to me.

> I guess that's because other links might need to be there, so in case
> people have separate partition for /usr/sbin and /usr/bin (not sure it's
> really often present or supported in Debian, but you never know).

> Splitting the binary(ies) means adding 1.2M to a package, but will that
> cause other issues?

Tripling the size of the ldap-utils package is the main issue I'm concerned
with.  I'd be much happier if there were upstream support for building
slappasswd as a separate executable.

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