[Pkg-openldap-devel] SASL configuration paths

[Russ Allbery]

Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto at connexer.com> writes:
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 06:09:59PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:

>> The Cyrus SASL libraries are standardizing on /etc/sasl2 on the path for
>> SASL configuration, and I think due to the way that we override the
>> configuration path that default isn't used.

>> I think that we should add /etc/sasl2 and /etc/sasl, the defaults from the
>> Cyrus SASL package, to our sasl-default-path patch in the short term.  In
>> the long term, I think we should move any files in /etc/ldap/sasl2 to
>> /etc/sasl2 and drop the /etc/ldap/sasl2 path.

>> Does that sound like the right approach to you?

> I wonder if there might be value to making /etc/ldap/sasl2 just be a
> symlink into /etc/sasl2.  I guess it depends on whether a user/admin
> would think of the files located therein to be specifically related to
> LDAP or to SASL.  Just a thought.

Either way we'd have to move the files in it, and I don't think the admin
is going to have any idea what either directory is without reading some
documentation.  Since we document the file path in README.Debian, I think
we can safely point people at that.

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Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>