[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#527025: Bug#527025: samba: location of "private dir" is wrong

Jelmer Vernooij jelmer at samba.org
Tue May 5 19:04:06 UTC 2009


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Christian Perrier wrote:
> Quoting Steve Langasek (vorlon at debian.org):
>> severity 527025 wishlist tags 527025 moreinfo thanks
>>
>> On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 08:02:49AM +0200, Christian Perrier
>> wrote:
>>> Package: samba Version: 3.2.5-4 Severity: serious For a reason
>>> I can't explain but could very well be a mistake of mine at
>>> some moment, we currently use /var/lib/samba for "private dir".
>>>
>> What?  What are you expecting to use *instead* of /var/lib/samba?
>>
>
>
> /etc/samba/private
>
> That's upstream recommendation, AFAIK and very probably (but needs
> to be checked) what other distros are doing.
/var/lib/samba is really much more appropriate than /etc/samba for the
private directory, which only contains databases that should generally
not be touched by sysadmins directly. I think it's wrong if we as
upstream recommend /etc/samba/private somewhere.

Cheers,

Jelmer
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