* Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Tony Earnshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > 2: reflect this in /the/same/path/slapd.conf. > > Debian supports this path for compatibility with the rest of the world, of > course, but /etc/ldap/sasl2/slapd.conf may also be used for those who > would prefer to keep configuration files in /etc rather than putting them > in /usr/lib/sasl2. > > I see that the general trend in Linux distributions is to standardize on > /etc/sasl2 as the configuration path, so we may migrate files from there > to /etc/sasl2 and drop the more peculiar /etc/ldap path in a later > release. (Opinions on that topic welcome. The approach currently taken > predates my involvement with the Debian OpenLDAP packages and looks like > it was intended to match how Postfix handled the same problem.)
Future versions of Debian will have /etc/sasl2 as default path and will provide /etc/sasl and /usr/lib/sasl2 as fallback. Package maintainers who wish to keep SASL config files close to their application may do that. [EMAIL PROTECTED] > I see that neither of the issues mentioned in this thread are documented > in README.Debian, which is oversight on our part; I'll get that fixed. > > -- > Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- state of mind Agentur für Kommunikation, Design und Softwareentwicklung Patrick Koetter Tel: 089 45227227 Echinger Strasse 3 Fax: 089 45227226 85386 Eching Web: http://www.state-of-mind.de Amtsgericht München Partnerschaftsregister PR 563
