On Wed, 04 Jul 2012 18:27:38 -0400, David Walser <[email protected]> wrote:

An issue has been raised while QA testing an update for krb5 for Mageia 1 and 
Mageia 2 about apparently incorrect paths in init scripts:
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6469

Would the correct thing to do be to change /var/kerberos/krb5kdc to 
/etc/kerberos/krb5kdc as proposed in this patch to kadmin.init?:
https://bugs.mageia.org/attachment.cgi?id=2476&action=diff

I also noticed a line in kprop.init that says:
    [ -f /var/kerberos/krb5kdc/kpropd.acl ] || exit 6

Should that be changed as well?

Yes.

Ideally, only the config files should be in /etc, and the database
should be in /var.  In order to get the security update out quickly,
the scripts should be changed to /etc, to match the current config
files.

I think a new bug report should be opened, requesting changing
the various scripts to use something like
eval $(sed 's/ //g' /etc/kerberos/krb5kdc/kdc.conf|grep ^database_name)
to get the location of the database (with similar code for the other
files) and have new installs put the database in /var.

Also, in krb5 in Cauldron, I similarly noticed the following...
kadmin.service:
ConditionPathExists=!/var/kerberos/krb5kdc/kpropd.acl

kprop.service:
ConditionPathExists=/var/kerberos/krb5kdc/kpropd.acl

Should those be changed as well?

Yes.

Regards, Dave Hodgins

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