Steve Langasek <vor...@debian.org> writes: > I don't think that /etc/shadow qualifies as a "configuration file", > either; I would call it "variable state information" (→ /var/lib), but > it lives in /etc because a) it has to be on the root filesystem, b) > that's where it's always been so moving it somewhere else would be more > trouble than it's worth.
> For other packages like sasl (or, say, samba, which stores all its > authentication databases in /var/lib/samba in Debian), neither of these > arguments holds AFAICS. Actually, now that I look at the sasldb2 file, I think you're right. I was under the mistaken impression that it was a file that administrators were expected to edit with a text editor, but it's actually a binary file format that's manipulated only via utilities. You're right; this probably doesn't belong in /etc at all and should instead be somewhere in /var. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
