[Pkg-openldap-devel] SASL configuration paths

[Russ Allbery]

Steve Langasek <vorlon at debian.org> 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?

> Is there any reason to do this as two steps, instead of adding
> /etc/sasl{,2} to the path and immediately moving the files in the same
> version?

I don't think so.  As long as the current version of Cyrus SASL does
support /etc/sasl2 and that wasn't just discussion on the list for what to
do in the future (I need to go explicitly check), I think we can do this
any time.

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