Robert Bihlmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) writes: > > > This is incorrect. /usr/share is intended to be shared between > > cooperating systems, but cooperating systems' root users might well > > have secrets that they want to conveniently share. > > /usr/share is not appropriate for that, as it is the OS's playground > (and I can't see any use for the OS installing secrets there). > For site-specific secrets /usr/local/share is a better choice.
"root users" is not somehow not the OS. For example, root users store secrets in the shadow password files. I'm speaking of secrets that *OS* programs need to have, and which should be shared among cooperating machines.
