[arch-dev-public] [signoff] krb5-1.9.1-2

[Allan McRae]

On 01/07/11 10:51, Stéphane Gaudreault wrote:
> Le 30 juin 2011 19:35:47, Allan McRae a écrit :
>> On 01/07/11 04:18, Stéphane Gaudreault wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> This is a bugfix rebuild for FS#24921. The following filenames have
>>> changed :
>>>
>>> /etc/krb5/kdc.conf =>   /var/lib/krb5kdc/kdc.conf
>>
>> That new location just seems wrong to me...  Is that standard?
>
> This location is given by the --localstatedir option of the configure script.
> This used so that the kerberos variable run-time data is located in /var/lib
> instead of /usr/var (default in the configure script). The kdc.conf file is
> installed in LOCALSTATEDIR/krb5kdc/kdc.conf.
>
> There is no real standard for this location. I do not have a strong opinion on
> this, so I could change it to a more appropriate place.
>
> Here are the locations used by some other distros :
> Slackware : /var/krb5kdc/kdc.conf
> LFS, Gentoo : /var/lib/krb5kdc/kdc.conf
> fedora, Suse : /var/kerberos/kdc.conf
> Debian, Ubuntu : /etc/krb5kdc/kdc.conf
> Mandriva : /etc/kerberos/krb5kdc/kdc.conf
>

Ugh...  that looks a mess.   I'd just leave it as is for now until there 
is a compelling reason to change.

Signoff i686,
Allan