On Fri, 2013-07-26 at 12:22 -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote:

> Well, *users* should not really notice or care where these things are
> unless they go looking for them. All a user cares about is whether
> they can authenticate and have access to their SSO credentials after
> doing so.
> 
> Moving this location around really impacts only packagers and certain
> developers, which is a different audience (and one that's usually more
> accepting of change, provided that the benefits are clearly
> communicated). In this case, we've gone from "Ugly, works most of the
> time but very fragile" (/tmp) to "When it works, it's nearly perfect,
> but it is broken for some very important use-cases" (/run/user/UID)
> and now we're trying for "Works for everyone without the fragility of
> the original approach." (/run/kerberos/UID)
> 
> The middle step was necessary - I think - in order to get us to the
> place we really wanted to be. I agree with Simo that it would be nice
> to have a solution that could solve all problems for every subsystem,
> but at the moment we really need to fix this one because it's causing
> problems for a lot of people.
> 
> Also, there's no guarantee that a perfect solution for other
> subsystems will ever actually show up. It may be that each
> service/application will have its own needs that have to be met
> separately. We can investigate this, but I don't think it should hold
> up the short-term fix.
> 
> Also, Tomas, you stated: "I'd rather like to see a plan that would fix
> also other similar uses off /run/user/<uid> and not just the
> Kerberos.". Can you point us at some places that have similar issues?
> I have no doubt they exist, but they're not on my radar right now and
> I'd like to keep track of them.

See the lengthy related discussion here
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=753882

-- 
Tomas Mraz
No matter how far down the wrong road you've gone, turn back.
                                              Turkish proverb

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