[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#249873: Bug#249873: Bug#249873: Bug#249873: Updated patch

[Luk Claes]

On 05/08/2012 11:20 PM, Christian PERRIER wrote:
> I finally came up with something completely different.
>
> The main problem of fhs-filespaths.patch is indeed that we replace
> lp_private_dir() by get_dyn_STATEDIR(), so by the location of "state
> directory" *that is defined at compile-time*.
>
> Indeed, it's quite logical to have secrets.tdb and passdb.tdb located
> in /var/lib/samba, namely the "state directory" and I think that
> upstream is indeed wrong in putting them in "private dir" as they mean
> that the files there are configuration file that can be directly
> managed by the local admin (which secrets.tdb and passdb.tdb are NOT).

Hmm, no. I think upstream is right that secrets.tdb and passdb.tdb 
should be in a directory that is only readable by root, the so called 
private dir (like /var/lib/samba/private). The smbpasswd file and .conf 
files need to be in /etc however as they are configuration files.

> Another action is probably to convince upstream to reconsider what
> should go to "private dir" and what should go to "state directory"
> (yes the two options names are NOT consistent).But changing this *is*
> where we'll need to handle transitions.

Right, we need to convince upstream to reconsider what should go to 
private dir, but related to the configuration directory, not to the 
state directory.

Cheers

Luk