URGENT: REDHAT 6.1 STORES SAMBA PRIVATE FILES IN /etc

[Michel van der Laan]

In your mail from 21-12-1999 you write:
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> > 1) you CANNOT put smbpasswd in /etc.
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> SuSE does this as well. It was partly my decision. For a standard
> installation I did not want to clobber the directories. I really do
> not see any further security benefit if smbpasswd is put somewhere
> else. People who play with permissions in /etc/ have to know what they
> do. The standard installation does it just fine, and if you chmod
> anything there, you are on your own.

It still is a bit of a pain though when you want to upgrade using the source
distribution. I'd be much in favour of keeping stuff as much as possible in 
[/usr/][s]bin/ for the "out of the box" packages, and in /usr/local/[s]bin/ 
for later added packages, since this does reduce lots and lots of PATH 
definitions.
However, when an author decices/suggests a certain /usr/local/<package>/
prefix, it would be prudent to stick to that for future updates. Since 
samba has a rather substantial sub-directory structure, it makes even
more sense. 


Michel.

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> Volker
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