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

[Steve Langasek]

reopen 527025
tags 527025 -moreinfo
severity 527025 minor
thanks

On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 06:45:35AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> However, what about the good old smbpasswd? It also lives in "private
> dir".

Also not configuration; it really belongs in /var/lib as well, but it's
kept in /etc/samba for historical reasons - which is precisely why pdb_tdb.c
is patched rather than redirecting privatedir.

We could certainly revisit this, though, and do a migration of smbpasswd to
/var/lib.

> So, basically, what we're doing here seems to be:

> -say that private dir will be /etc/samba
> - but then replace it with "state_dir" when it's used

Not for all cases...

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