As part of SSL, we need to introduce configuration so accumulo clients (such as ZooKeeperInstance) can find trust stores. It seems like this has a lot in common with shell config files in ACCUMULO-1397. Do people think these should be combined, or should the shell have its own separate config? I was imagining a simple java .properties-style key=value list. Does this seem reasonable? Or should the format be more like the xml of the site config? I was also imagining looking through a list of files that would each override settings, perhaps in the following order (from lowest to highest priority):
/etc/accumulo/client.conf $ACCUMULO_HOME/conf/client.conf $HOME/.accumulo/config --client-config command line switch for shell or explicit parameter passed to ZooKeeperInstance Does this sound good to y'all? Should the explicit switch/parameter have per-property override semantics, or should it just be used as the exclusive source of properties if specified? Mike Drob, are you actively working on the shell side of this already? I see that bug is assigned to you... Thanks, Michael
